Mary Gilmore Williams

Williams taught Latin at Kirkwood Seminary and Lake Erie College from 1889 to 1894. She taught Greek at Mount Holyoke College from 1898, became a professor in 1902, and was the head of the Greek department when she retired in 1929.^[8][9] She wrote a study of the lives of Roman empresses Julia Domna and Julia Avita Mamaea, which was published in 1902,^[10] and is still cited in classical scholarship, over a century later.^[11] She was a member of the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Philological Association, and the Classical Association of New England (CANE).^[12][13]

Williams lived with her mother and brother in Corning for much of her adult life. She died there in 1938, aged 74 years, and her grave is in Corning's Hope Cemetery.^[8]