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Th e obituary for Frank M. Willimas from the 9. Alduino, Frank. The Smugglers’ Blues: Drug and
Miami News and the Miami Harold state that he was Alien Traffic in Tampa during the 1920s. (Tampa Bay
an active member of a Masonic Lodge, the Scottish History, Fall/Winter 1991, Vol 13, No. 2.), 27.
Rite, and Shrine.15 At the time of this writing, we have 10. Alduino, Frank. Prohibition in Tampa. (Tampa Bay
not been able to identify his Masonic Lodge, Scottish History, Spring/Summer 1987 Volume 9, Number 1.), 17.
Rite Valley, or Shrine Temple that he belonged to at 11. Alduino, Frank, Dr. The Damnedest Town This
the time of his death.16 Side of Hell: Tampa 1920-1929 (Part 1). (The Sunland
Tribune, Volume XVI November, 1990, Journal of the
Frank M Williams died on June 23, 1956, at the Tampa Historical Society, Tampa, Florida)
age of 76 years, and is buried at Arlington National 12. Koening, Joshua D, Phd. &RG\ :\RPLQJ 7KH %Xৼ DOR
Cemetery. Bill Historical Center. (Our Shared Vision: Representation
of the TransMississippi American West), 2020, Western
Michigan University. 86-87.
13. Infantry Journal, Vol 23, July 1928-Dec 1928. (The
United States Infantry Assocation, Washington D.C.),
447.
14. The Miami News, Miami Florida, Sunday, June 24,
1956.
15. Archives, Grand Lodge AF&AM of Wyoming,
Membership Records, Beynon St. John, Grand Secretary,
2020.
16. Miami Herald, Miami Florida, Sunday, June 24, 1958.

Figure 1. Capt. Williams portrait by Joseph Cummings
Chase. Division of Political and Military History,
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution.
Figure 4. Portrait of Major Frank Williams. Figure 5. Grave at Arlington
National Cemetery. Figure 2. Williams, Frank M. Reminiscences of F. M.
Source Information: Williams. Unpublished manuscript. 50.
1. McCracken Research Library and Buffalo Bill Museum Figure 3. Distinguished Service Cross. Public Domain.
Collection 1910-1965, Major Frank M. Williams. Special
thanks to: Karen Preis, Administrative Assistant and )LJXUH %X൵ DOR %LOO &HQWHU RI WKH :HVW &RG\ :\RPLQJ
Samuel Hanna, Curatorial Assistant. :KLWQH\ :HVWHUQ $UW 0XVHXP ³0DM )UDQN :LOOLDPV´
2. Progressive Men Of The State Of Wyoming, 1903. E\ 3KLOLS $ 6DZ\HU 6SHFLDO WKDQNV WR
(A.W. Bowen & Co, Chicago, Il), 705. Karen McWhorter-Curator, Mack Frost- Digital Archivist
3. Chase, J. Cummings. Soldiers all: portraits and & Nicole Todd - Curatorial Assistant.
sketches of the men of the A. E. F. (New York: George H.
Doran company, 1920.), 57-63. Figure 5. Frank M. Williams, Gravestone. Arlington
4. Official History of 82nd Division American National Cemetery. Frank Marion Williams, Colonel,
Expeditionary Forces, All American Division, Written Infantry-Reserves. Public Domain.
by Divisional Officers Designated by the Division
Commander, 1917-1919, (The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Indianapolis, 1920.), 164-166.
5. History of Florida: Past and Present, Historical and
Biographical, Volume 1. (The Lewis Publishing Co,
Chicago, 1923.), 184.
6. Mastriano, Douglas V. Alvin York: A New Biography of
the Hero of the Argonne, (University Press of Kentucky,
2014.), 140-141.

7. Minutes, first meeting of the Caucus of the American
Legion March 15, 1919. Paris, France. https://archive.
legion.org/
8. Wheat, George S. The Story of The American Legion:
The Birth of the Legion, (G.P. Putnam’s Sons New York Photo: cr. 1920, from the Cedentials issued to Frank M. Williams
and London, The Knickerbocker Press, 1919.). by the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service as a Federal
Prohibition Inspector.
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