Mrs. A. B. Looscan, of Houston, has presented to the State Library a broadside “In Memoriam” of Colonel John A. Williams , issued by the officers of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad, of which corporation he was chief engineer and superintendent. He was born at Brookline, Connecticut, in 1825, removed to Texas in 1851, and died of yellow fever September 15, 1867. During the Civil War he attained the rank of Colonel of Engineers, C. S. A.

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"“In Memoriam” of Colonel John A. Williams", Volume 017, Number 1, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 98. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v017/n1/review_30.html
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