Cleveland Box Company, a position that he held until his death. While under his leadership the Cleveland Box Company engaged in business across the country and patented a line of special boxes. Mr. Williams served as a member of the boards of directors for the Merchants & Manufacturers Insurance Company, General Package Company of New York city, Lake Superior Construction Company, and National Box Association of the United States, serving as presiding officer of the National Box Association for one year. An expert linguist, Charles spoke fluent French and German, and readily read Greek and Latin. Also a passionate musician, he composed and performed as an organist under the nom de plume of "Guglielimi", and played the organ and led the choir in the First Congregational Church of Kent, Ohio for 25 years. Charles married Mary P. Carver in 1866 in Kent, Ohio, and they had two sons; Dr. William Carver Williams and Day Williams. Mary was a descendant of famed explorer Jonathan Carver and Robert Carver, one of the early (1638) Plymouth Colony settlers and brother of the first governor of Plymouth Colony, John Carver. Mary died in 1896, and in 1907, he married Mari Carlson, from Sweden. References The ancestors and descendants of Ebenezer and Martha Porter Williams of Painesville, Ohio, of the fourth generation in America: including biographical material and genealogies of the families of their ten children, Percy Williams Lewis, 1974 Businesspeople from Cleveland Case Western Reserve University alumni Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine alumni 1914 deaths 1839 births Union Army soldiers 19th-century American businesspeople