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Ephraim Williams

North American philanthropist

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endowment of Williams College

  • Williams College
    In Williamstown

    …1765 and renamed for Colonel Ephraim Williams, killed in the French and Indian War (1754–63), who had bequeathed money in his will to establish a “free school” there provided the town bear his name. The school was opened in 1791 and chartered as Williams College in 1793. The town’s Sterling…

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