PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi06557::A Guide to the Williams family papers, 1884-2021)//EN" "vi06557.xml" A Guide to the Williams family papers, 1884-2021 Williams family papers, 1884-2021 53248 Trenton Hizer Library of Virginia © 2025 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved. Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by Trenton Hizer, 22 April 2025 Description is in English A Guide to the Williams family papers, 1884-2021 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 53248

Library of Virginia 2025 Trenton Hizer Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Williams family papers, 1884-2021 53248 3.81 cubic feet (9 boxes and 1 folder) English Williams family Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Williams family papers, 1884-2021. Accession 53348. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Ennion Williams, Jr., Richmond.

Biographical Information

Ennion Gifford Williams was born 31 January 1874 in Richmond, Virginia, to John Langbourne Williams (1831-1915) and Maria Ward Skelton Williams (1843-1929). He graduated with a medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1897, then served as an intern at the Willard Parker Hospital in New York, New York, and on the resident staff at the Polyclinic Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Williams studied abroad in Germany, researching x-rays under Wilhelm Roentgen. Returning to Richmond, he was appointed professor of Bacteriology at the Medical College of Virginia in 1901,and later served as professor of hygiene and public health (1913) and of preventive medicine (1916). Williams served as a member of the Richmond City Council from 1906 to 1908. Governor Claude A. Swanson appointed Williams Virginia's first Public Health Commissioner in 1908 and he was subsequently reappointed to the position by succeeding governors until his death. His focus was on improving public health through measures such as better sanitation practices and in better public education. Williams married Anna Heath Lassiter (1875-1972) 21 October 1902 and they had eight children, including Ennion Skelton Williams. Williams died 6 June 1931 in Richmond and was buried in Hollywood Cemtery.

Ennion Skelton Williams was born 7 November 1906 in Henrico County, Virginia, to Ennion Gifford Williams (1874-1931) and Anna Heath Lassiter Williams (1875-1972). Williams graduated from the University of Virginia in 1926 and from the Medical College of Virginia in 1930. After serving an internship at the Pennsylvania Hospital of Philadelphia, he returned to Richmond, Virginia, to practice medicine. In 1934 became the assistant medical director for Life Insurance Company of Virginia. Williams was named medical director in 1938 and elected vice president and medical director in 1956. He became vice president, administration in 1963 and senior vice president in 1964. That same year, he became president-treasurer of Virginia-North Carolina 65 Health Association. In 1934, Williams served as chairman of a committee established by the Medical Society of Virginia to study venereal disease, and in 1952 he was chairman of a committee appointed by Virginia Health Department and the Virginia Tuberculosis Association to study tuberculosis. Williams served as a member of several medical and insurance organizations and societies. He married Ann Hill Brown (1909-1997) of Richmond, and they had three children. Williams was killed in a commercial plane crash in New York, New York, 8 February 1965. He was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1884-2021, of the Williams family of Goochland and Henrico Counties, and Richmond, Virginia, consisting of articles, certificates, clippings, correspondence, journals, newsletters, notes, programs, reports and other documents detailing the medical careers of Ennion Gifford Williams (1874-1931) and Ennion Skelton Williams (1906-1965).

Arrangement

This collection is arranged

Series I: Ennion Gifford Williams papers, 1884-2021 Series II: Ennion Skelton Williams papers, 1923-2021 Adjunct Descriptive Data Related Material

Lassiter family correspondence, 1903-1921 (LVA accession 52884).

Rives-Heath-Lassiter-Williams family papers, 1841-2020 (LVA accession 52885).

Contents List Series I: Ennion Gifford Williams papers, 1884-2021. 1-3, 6-9 Extent: 6 boxes.

Ennion Gifford Williams papers, 1884-2021, contains articles, certificates, clippings, correspondence, journals, newsletters, notes, reports, and other documents detailing Williams' career as a physician and as the Commonwealth of Virginia's first Public Health Commissioner. Collections documents efforts to be employed as a naval doctor, involvement in public health projects, and in medical education. Of particular interest are the papers of the Anti-Diphtheria League of Virginia.

Personal papers, 1894-2021. 1, 6-8 Correspondence, 1894-1899 1 1 Correspondence, 1906-1936 1 2 Letter, Roy K. Flannagan to Mrs. Ennion G. (Anna Heath Lassiter) Williams, 14 February 1940 with copies of articles by Flannagan--Control of Typhoid Fever in Virginia, Early Adventures in Public Health in Virginia, and Pioneering in Health--1908 to 1910 1 3 Notebook on hygiene 7 1 Notebook 7 2 Notebook 7 3 Volume containing lists of names and addresses of friends, medical persons, and Health Department persons 8 Volume containing excerpts, quotes, and observations 8 Scrapbook, 1902-1907 8 Scrapbook, 1907 8 Public Health Commissioner commissions, 1908, 1912, 1916 6 Notes (handwritten) and references for techniques used in the Chem. department (typed) 1 4 Obituary of Ennion G. Williams (incomplete), June 1931 1 5 Bibliographies of articles and papers by Ennion G. Williams, no date, 2021 1 6 Addresses, notes, talks, and unpublished papers. 1, 7 Meeting of the Special Joint Committee of Investigation of the Health Department (Richmond), 23 February 1906 1 7 Meeting of the Special Joint Committee of Investigation of the Health Department (Richmond), 1 March 1906 1 8 Address to the City Council on the Special Joint Committee, 1906 1 9 City Outgrown Health System, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 18 April 1906 (available on newspaper microfilm reel 4) 1 10 State Board of Health notes, 1908 7 4 Address of Welcome to the Graduated Nurses Association of Virignia in Behalf of the Medical Profession of Richmond 1 11 Address of Welcome in Behalf of the Medical Society of Virginia and of the Richmond Academy of Medicine and Surgery 1 12 A Bill to Prescribe How the State Board of Health Shall Be Constituted After January the First 1908, 1908 1 13 Children--education on bacteria 1 14 The Compilation of Morbidity Statistics by the Federal Government Will Be of Service to State and Territorial Health Officers 1 15 The Duty of the Health Official to the Physician 1 16 Gifford Genealogy 1 17 The House Fly 1 18 Hygiene, Sanitation, and Bacteria 1 19 Letter and Report of the Committee on Railroad Sanitation, 17 September 1912 1 20 Medical Inspection of Schools and the Teacher 1 21 To the Members of the Board of Health of Virginia 1 22 The New Almshouse, letter to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, 1907 1 23 The Newer Outlook in Medicine 1 24 Outlook for Public Health 1 25 Popular Bacteriology 1 26 Prospect of State Aid 1 27 Radium 1 28 Sanitary Administration 1 29 Sanitation on the Farm 1 30 The Teaching of Physiology, Hygiene, and Sanitation in the Public Schools 1 31 Anti-Diphtheria League of Virginia, 1927-1929. 1-2, 8, oversize folder Correspondence, February-8 March 1928 1 32 Correspondence, 9-16 March 1928 1 33 Correspondence, 19-26 March 1928 1 34 Correspondence, 27-31 March 1928 1 35 Correspondence, April 1928 1 36 Correspondence, May 1928 1 37 Correspondence, June-November 1928 1 38 Correspondence, January 1929 2 1 Financial records and checks, 1928-1929 2 2 The Anti-Diphtheria League of Virginia--To Banish Diphtheria from Our State 2 3 County clinics--Alleghany County, December 1928 2 4 County clinics--Dickenson, Grayson, Hanover, Pittsylvania, and Scott Counties, 1927-1928 7 5 Diphtheria Control in Virginia October, 1926-March 1928, reprinted from Virginia Medical Monthly September 1928 2 5 Diphtheria Immunization in Schools: Suggestions for a Workable Program, Monograph No. 2, School Health Bureau, Welfare Division, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 2 6 Protect Your Child from Diphtheria, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 2 7 General papers, 1928 2 8 Newspaper clippings, 1928-1929, ca. 1940 2 9 University of Virginia Newsletter, vol. 4 no. 10, 15 February 1928 Oversize folder Virginia: A Marvellous Story of Progress and of Improved Methods of Taxation, by Harry Flood Byrd, reprinted from Manufacturers Record, 30 August 1928 2 6 Articles and publications by Ennion G. Williams, 1901-1930. 2-3, oversize folder Bacteriology Quiz, Medical College of Virginia, 1901 2 10 Crime and Heredity, Virginia Health Bulletin Vol. XVI, Extra No. 14, June-July 1924 2 11 The Debatable Fields of Public Health Activity, reprinted from Virginia Medical Monthly, January 1927 2 12 Evolving a Health Department, reprinted from American Journal of Public Health Vol. XX, No. 12, December 1930 2 13 A Few Remarks on the Principles Governing Roentgen Therapy, reprinted from Mobile Medical and Surgical Journal, January 1906 2 14 A Few Remarks on the Proper Value of the X-Ray in Therapeutics, reprinted from The Charlotte Medical Journal, January 1905 2 15 Gelatine Treatment in Aneurism, reprinted from Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Health, August 1903 2 16 A General City Hospital and the New Colored Almshouse, 19 February 1907 2 17 Health Work and Health Problems in Virginia, 1923 2 18 Heart Diseases, radio talk by E. G. Williams, 20 October 1926 2 19 The Legitimate Boundaries of Public Health Activities, reprinted from Virginia Medical Monthly, December 1925 2 20 Letter from Dr. Ennion G. Williams, Commissioner of Health for Virginia, in See What Ex-Governors of Virginia, Presidents of Virginia Colleges, Leaders in Medical, Dental, and Pharmacy Education, and Your Own Home Physicians, Dentists, Pharmacists, and Others Say About Where the University of Virginia Can Most Efficiently and Economically Serve the People of the State in Educating Physicians, Dentists, and Pharmacists, Suppplement to Bulletin of the Medical College of Virginia Vol. XVIII, No. 2, June 1921 2 21 The Minister's Part in Public Health Work, 22 May 1928 2 22 Notes on General Pathology, 1904 2 23 Our New Therapeutic Agent, the Roentgen Ray, in Old Dominion JOurnal of Medicine and Surgury Vol. III, No. 10, March 1905 2 24 Our Southern Problem, reprinted from The Southern Medical Journal Vol. XVI, No. 1, January 1923 2 25 Physicians as a Factor in National Efficiency, reprinted from The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, July 1918 2 26 The Postoperative Treatment of Malignant Disease, reprinted from American Journal of the Medical Sciences, January 1909 2 27 Practicing Health Habits, reprinted from The American Journal of Nursing, May 1927 2 28 Principles Governing the Technic of Roentgen Ray Therapy, reprinted from The Medical News, 13 May 1905 2 29 The Regulation of the Distance of the X-Ray Tube in Treating Superficial and Deep Growths, in American Jounal of Dermatology, Vol. XI, No. 5May 1907 2 30 The Regulation of the Duration of Exposure and the Distance from the Tube in X-Ray Therapy, reprinted from The Medical News, 26 March 1904 2 31 Reply of Alderman Marx Gunst to the Arguments of Councilman Ennion G. Williams Concerning the Proposed New Colored City Home and an Emergency or General City Hospital and Reply of Dr. Ennion G. Williams to the Statements of Mr. Marx Gunst, in Opposition to Plan to Build a City Hospital, 1907 2 32 Report of Ennion G. Williams Regarding Sheppard-Towner Law, Conference of State and Provincial Health Officers of North America, 1929 Oversize folder Report of the Special Joint Committee to Investigate the Health Department (Richmond), 1906 2 33 Report of the X-Ray Department, reprinted from The Annual Report of Memorial Hospital, Richmond, Virginia, 15 August 1904 2 34 Other Sera, Including Those for Typhoid, Cholera, Dysentery, and Tuberculosis, in A Symposium on Serum-Therapy reprinted from Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery, symposium held 18-21 October 1904 3 1 The Therapeutic Uses of the Rontgen Ray, in Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly Vol. 10, No. 12, 22 September 1905 3 2 The Therapeutic Uses of the X-Rays with Report of Cases, in Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly, 13 November 1903 3 3 The Tube in Roentgen Therapy, reprinted from American Quarterly of Roentgenology, January 1907 3 4 Why We Consider Infantile Paralysis a Filth-Borne Disease, reprinted from Virginia Medical Monthly, May 1928 3 5 The X-Ray and Therapeutics Department, in Bulletin of the Medical College of Virginia Vol. IV, No. 3, September 1907 3 6 X-Ray Therapy with a Report of Cases, reprinted from Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery, October 1903 3 7 X-Ray Treatment of Malignant Growth, reprinted from Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery, August 1906 3 8 Publications on Medicine and Health, 1884-1931. 3 House Bill --, A Bill to prescribe how the State Board of Health shall be constituted, 1 January 1909 3 9 Christ Healing the Sick, address at the Pennsylvania Hospital by Dr. Thomas J. Morton and John B. Garrett, 1884 3 10 The Head and the Hand: the Practical Side of College Life Problems of the Day, by Kemp P. Battle, 23 June 1886 3 11 How London and Edinburgh Influenced Medicine in Philadelphia in the Eighteenth Century, by Francis R. Packard, reprinted from Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1931 3 12 Malaria: Lessons on Its Cause and Prevention, by H. R. Carter, 1916 3 13 Medical Education in Virginia Should be Unified in Richmond, Together with Dentistry, Pharmacy and Nursing,, supplement to Bulletin of the MEdical College of Virginia Vol. XVIII, No. 1, March 1921 3 14 The Medical Profession of Virginia, by J. Shelton Horsley, reprinted from Virginia Medical Monthly, November 1927 3 15 Minority Report of the Commission on Medical Education in Virginia by Wilbur C. Hall, Theodore Hough, William D. Prince, and J. Belmont Woodson, 1921 3 16 The Origins and Significance of the Public Health Movement in the United States, by Richard H. Shryock, reprinted from Annals of Medical History Vol. I, No. 6, 1929 3 17 An Outline of the Practice of Preventive Medicine, by Sir George Newman, 1919 3 18 Principles of Ethics of the American Medical Association, 1929 3 19 Report of the Commission on Medical Education in Virginia, Bulletin of the Medical College of Virginia Vol. XVIII, No. 1, March 1921 3 20 The Sanitary Pit Privy, Virginia Health Bulletin Vol. XX, No. 11, November 1928 3 21 Some Observations on Political Parties in Virginia, by Hunsdon Cary, 1921 3 22 The University of Virginia and Medical Education, The University of Virginia, 1921 3 23 General Articles and Publications mentioning Ennion G. Williams, 1922-2017. 3 Ennion G. Williams Hospital, Medical College of Virginia, 1954-1955 3 24 Blue Ridge Tuberculosis Sanatorium clippings, 1922-1950, 2002, 2005 3 25 George Ben Johnson, by Frank S. Johns, reprinted from Southern Medicine and Surgery Vol. 106, No. 3, March 1944 3 26 History of the Richmond Academy of Medicine 1820-1960, by Harry J. Warthen and Carrington Williams, reprinted from Virginia Medical Monthly Vol. 89, October 1962 3 27 Medical College of Virginia Hospitals: Hospitals in Action , Fall 1986 3 28 An Improved Concentration Test of Renal Function, by F. H. Lashmet and L. H. Newburgh, in Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 100, No. 17, 29 April 1933 3 29 The Devastating Autumn of 1918: Flu Killed 86 and Shook the Valley, by David Witkege in The Roanoker, September-October 1998 3 30 The Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918, by Nelson D. Lankford, News From Friends of Hollywood Cemetery, Fall 2017 3 30 100 Years of Public Health in Virginia, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 23 April 1972 3 31 Pioneering in Health-1908 to 1910, by Roy K. Flannagan, reprinted from Viginia Medical Monthly, November 1938 3 32 Pioneers in Public Health in the Southern United States, by W. S. Leathers, reprinted from Southern Medical Journal Vol. XXVI, No. 4, April 1933 3 33 The Public Welfare and Health Period, Modern Knights of the Holy Grail Series: The Guardian Knight Ennion G. Williams, M.D. 1874-1931, by Roy K. Flannagan, Radio Talk, WRVA, 25 February 1941 3 34 Radiology Associates of Richmond, 1905-2005, 2005 3 35 Pages from Medicine in Virginia in the Nineteenth Century and from The Randolphs 3 36 Picture of the University of Virginia, copy of 1856 image 3 37 Series I: Ennion Skelton Williams papers, 1923-2021. 3-6 Extent: 4 boxes.

Ennion Skelton Williams papers, 1923-2021, contain articles, certificates, clippings, correspondence, journals, newsletters, notes, programs, report cards, and reports documenting Williams' education at the University of Virginia and the Medical College of Virginia; his internship at the Pennsylvania Hospital of Philadelphia; and his career as medical director and vice president at the Life Insurance Company of Virginia.

Personal Papers, 1923-2021. 3-4, 6 University of Virginia papers, 1923-1927 3 38 Correspondence, 1925-1926 3 39 Medical College of Virginia papers, 1928-1930 3 40 National Board of Medical Examiners, 1928-1932 3 41 Correspondence, 1929 3 42 Correspondence, 1930 3 43 Virginia state medical certificate, 20 June 1930 6 Correspondence, 1932 4 1 Surgical reports, 1932 4 2 Pennsylvania Hospital certificate for resident physician in medicine, 1932-1933 6 Correspondence, 1933 4 3 Correspondence, 1934 4 4 Correspondence, 1935 4 5 Life Insurance Company of Virginia 25 years of service certificate, 25 January 1960 6 Virginia Perennials Annual Banquet, 25 February 1960 4 6 Photographs, banquets 4 7 Notes and writings on tuberculosis, cholesterol, other medical subjects, and insurance 4 8 Notes on histamine tests, Reynaud's Disease, saline test, carbarsone therapy, carbohydrate metabolism, and metabolism 4 9 Papers, talks, notes 4 10 Prescription pad 4 11 Stationery 4 12 Papers, 1970, 1989, 1991, 2021 4 13 The Distribution of Sugar and Chlorid in the Blood of Diabetic Individuals, by Ennion S. Williams and F. William Sunderman, reprinted from American Journal of the Medical Sciences Vol. 187, No. 4, April 1934 4 14 Studies in Serum Electrolytes. IX The Change in Total Quantity and Osmolal Concentration of Glucose and Chloride in the Serum after the Ingestion of Glucose by Diabetic Patients, by F. William Sunderman and Ennion S. Williams, reprinted from Journal of Clinical Investigation Vol. XIV, No. 2, March 1935 4 14 The Social Significance of Syphilis, by Ennion S. Williams, reprinted from Virginia Medical Monthly, September 1936 4 14 The Ultimate Prognosis in Eclampsia, by M. P. Rucker and Ennion S. Williams, reprinted from Virginia Medical Monthly, January 1941 4 14 Insurance History-Taking, by Ennion S. Williams, in Southern Medicine and Surgery Vol. 103, No. 11, November 1941--article removed from journal 4 15 Publications, 1931-1991. 4-5 Program, 31st annual meeting, Medical Section-American Life Convention, 16-18 June 1941 4 16 Program, 38th annual meeting, Medical Section-American Life Convention, 15-17 June 1950 4 16 Proceedings and minutes of the 38th Annual Meeting, Medical Section-American Life Convention, 15-17 June 1950 4 17 Licova News Vol. X, No. 9 (published by and for the home office employees of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia), September 1955 4 18 Licova News Vol. XII, No. 1, January 1957 4 18 Licova News Vol. 13, No. 8, August 1958 4 19 Licova News Vol. 14, No. 10, October 1959 4 19 Licova News Vol. 18, No. 6, June 1963 4 20 Licova News Vol. 19, No. 2, February 1964 4 20 Licova News Vol. 19, No. 4, April 1964 4 21 Licova News Vol. 19, No. 5, May 1964 4 21 Licova News Vol. 20, No. 1, January 1965 4 22 Licova News Vol. 20, No. 2, February 1965 4 22 Virginia Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 15 (published monthly for representatives of its Ordinary Agency Division), 18 August 1952 4 23 Virginia Bulletin Vol. 16, No. 2, February 1965 4 23 Virginia Standard Vol. VIII, No. 13 (published by the Life Insurance Company of Virginia), 30 March 1935 4 24 Virginia Standard Vol. XII, special, August 1939 4 24 Virginia Standard, February 1965 4 24 The Medicovan Vol. VIII, No. 3 (Medical College of Virginia), April 1955 4 25 The Scarab: Official Organ of the Alumni Association of the Medical College of Virginia Vol. 4, No. 2, May 1955 4 26 Bulletin of the Medical College of Virginia: The First 125 Years, 1838-1963, 1963 4 27 Ennion S. Williams, M.D., 1906-1965, in Virginia Medical Monthly, March 1965 4 28 The Great Idealist--The Life and Times of Dr. Ennion G. Williams, in Virginia Medical Monthly, February 1968 5 1 ALC News Letter No. 685 (published by American Life Convention), 8 July 1963 5 2 Annals of Medical History new series Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1938 5 3 Bulletin of the Richmond Academy of Medicine Vol. VIII, No. 1, March 1940 5 4 The Weekly Underwriter Vol. 160, No. 26, 25 June 1949 5 5 Recommendations Made by the Survey Committee of the Health Council Under the Auspices of the Richmond Council of Social Agencies, September 1934 5 6 Life of Virginia: Announcing Our New Service Mark, May 1965 5 7 Publications on the Pennsylvania Hospital of Philadelphia, 1932 5 8 Proceedings of the Physiological Society of Philadelphia Vol. IX, 1933-1934 5 9 Carcinogenesis--A Line of Research. Second Paper: The Role of the Lymphatic System in Its Relation to Karyokinesis, by Moses Benmosche and James Coull, reprinted from Virginia Medical Monthly, August 1935 5 10 Ectopic Pregnancy: A Report of 130 Cases, by Frank S. Johns, reprinted from Virginia Medical Monthly, August 1943 5 10 The Genetic Origin of Tumors Supported by Their Simultaneous and Symmetrical Occurence in Homologous Twins, by Joseph McFarland and T. Stanley Meade, reprinted from American Journal of the Medical Sciences Vol. CLXXXIV, No. 1July 1932 5 10 History of the State Health Department, Report of the Commission to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia, State Document No. 16, 1950 5 10 Longevity After Coronary Thrombosis, by Paul D. White, reprinted from Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 100, No. 4, 28 January 1933 5 10 The Rate of Absorption of Glucose from the Gastrointestinal Tract of the Dog, by Harry C. Trimble, Benjamin W. Carey, and Stephen J. Maddock, reprinted from Journal of Biological Chemistry Vol. C, No. 1, March 1933 5 10 Theodor Billroth as Musician, by F. William Sunderman, reprinted from Bulletin of the Medical Library Association Vol. 25, May 1937 5 10 Life insurance policy for William Fontaine Lippett from the Life Insurance Company of Virginia (photostat), 1872 5 11 Slide on duration of policy and ratio or control to expected deaths, 1937 5 11 Newspaper clippings, 1931-1991 5 12