George E. Williams (28 February 1828 – 31 October 1914)[1] was an American newspaper publisher and politician from New York.
Life
He was born on February 28, 1828, in Clay, Onondaga County, New York. He attended the public schools, and for six months the Clinton Liberal Institute. In 1851, he became the editor and publisher of the Phoenix Gazette, a Whig-leaning newspaper. Two years later he moved to Fulton, in Oswego County, and published there the Oswego County Gazette. Williams and his paper joined the Republican cause in 1855. In 1858, the paper was merged with Richard K. Sanford's Fulton Patriot to become the Fulton Patriot and Gazette. From 1865 to 1867, Williams traveled about Louisiana and Alabama, to get a picture of the South after the American Civil War. After his return he established the Fulton Times, an independent newspaper[2] which he published until 1881.[3]
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