George Williams College (Chicago) George Williams College (Chicago) George Williams College was a college located in the northwestern corner of Hyde Park, Chicago. The college was an expansion of a summer camp founded by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) on the shores of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin in 1886. The college remained in Hyde Park from its founding in 1890 until 1965, when it moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. Subsequently, the Hyde Park campus was demolished in 1989. George Williams College can trace its origin to a summer camp founded on the shores of Geneva Lake, Wisconsin by YMCA leaders I. E. Brown, William
George E. Williams St. Louis, Missouri. George E. Williams George E. Williams (28 February 1828 – 31 October 1914) was an American newspaper publisher and politician from New York. He was born on February 28, 1828, in Clay, Onondaga County, New York. He attended the public schools, and for six months the Clinton Liberal Institute. In 1851, he became the editor and publisher of the "Phoenix Gazette", a Whig-leaning newspaper. Two years later he moved to Fulton, in Oswego County, and published there the "Oswego County Gazette". Williams and his paper joined the Republican cause in 1855. In 1858, the paper was merged