Cotton farmer. Correspondence (1909–1949) to and from Williams regarding the Beckham County, Oklahoma, war relief and finance efforts during World War I, Williams’s invention and eventual patenting of a cotton-cleaning machine, and Williams’s views on world and national events in the post–World War II years; blueprints (circa 1924) for the cotton-cleaning machine; a typescript (n.d.) by Williams regarding the Chisholm Trail in Beckham County; and official reports (1918–1919) regarding the progress and status of the Liberty Bond and Liberty Loan drives in Beckham County during World War I. The correspondence includes a letter (1918) from Governor Robert L. Williams regarding the war finance effort in Oklahoma.