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 C. Williams (Medal of Honor) 14, 1926. He is interred at the Cedar Grove Cemetery in New London, Connecticut. While on duty with the wagon train as quartermaster sergeant he voluntarily left his place of safety in the rear, joined a company, and fought with distinguished gallantry through the action. George C. Williams (Medal of Honor) George C. Williams (1839–1926) was a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War who was awarded the Medal of Honor. Williams was born in England on December 9, 1839. He emigrated to the United States and joined the Union Army during the American Civil War. He