Osbert Edwin Williams Jr. (December 15, 1875 – October 25, 1917) was a pioneer aviator. He started the Williams Aeroplane Company. Biography He was born on December 15, 1875, in Webster Township, Michigan to Osbert Edwin Williams Sr. and Sarah E. Williams (née Cook). He was working for the railroad when he became interested in aviation. He started a flying school and aircraft manufacturing company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He died on October 25, 1917, in Mobile, Alabama. Students Many of his students died in crashes or served in World War I. Albert Boshek (1890–1917) Ransom A. Fowler (1889–1916) Don McGee (1896–1917) Harold M. Bruner Leroy Wilson (aviator) Lieutenant Cyrus K. Bettis (1893–1926) served in World War I Lieutenant John Burns (aviator) served in World War I Captain E. G. Knapp (?–1928) served in World War I Lieutenant John Thad Johnson (1893–1927) served in World War I Sid Robberts References External links Regulator for dampers and the like (1912) Osbert Edwin Williams Jr. at Early Aviators 1875 births 1917 deaths Businesspeople from Scranton, Pennsylvania American aerospace engineers Aviation history of the United States American inventors Aviation pioneers Aviators from Michigan Engineers from Pennsylvania 19th-century American businesspeople