01378crm a2200193 4500 758968750 TxAuBib 20150918120000.0 150918|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib Portrait [Museum Object]. "Photograph of Samuel May Williams, an enlargement of a small photograph in the Archives of Rosenberg Library. Shades of gray and white. Was framed in a brown wood 1/2"" frame without glass. Whereabouts of frame unknown.". PERMANENT COLLECTION. "Donated by the Battleship of Texas Commission February 29, 1956 through the courtesy of Admiral S.M. Robinson". 20150918. "Samuel May Williams (1795-1858), Texas pioneer, patriot, merchant, and banker. He came to Texas in 1822; was land office manager and secretary of Austin's Colony; partner in the firm of McKinney and Williams which became the mercantile establishment of early Texas which backed the infant Republic with money and supplies; one of the founders and president of the Commercial and Agricultural Bank at Galveston, the first and for years the only incorporated bank in Texas.". https://rosenberg.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/E416B6D4-40C7-44BF-85BE-293255202227 See Museum Object Listing RV8