Col. Curtis L. Williams collection

Curtis Lee Williams (1907-1961) was born in 1907 in Stone Bridge, Texas. His father died when he was two. His mother remarried and the family relocated to Oklahoma. Curtis graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Oklahoma A&M. He was also active in ROTC. He then received his law degree from University of Oklahoma. In 1927 he married Harriet Cecilia Scott. In 1936 they moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma where Curtis practiced law and was a captain in the National Guard. Curtis and Cecilia’s son Edwin Arnold Williams was born in March 1940. Their second son, Curtis Scott Williams, was born in January 1942. When the United States entered World War II, Curtis was assigned to General Douglas MacArthur’s staff in Washington, D.C. and then transferred to the Inspector General’s office. After the war, Curtis served as a member of the Interrogation Division of Office US Chief of Counsel for the International Military Tribune in Paris, France and Nuremberg, Germany, August-December 1945. Following his involvement with IMT Curtis continued his law career with the military and in private practice.