C.S. Williamson was born in Covington, Kentucky, in 1851 and then moved (with his parents Ovid C. and Etna Williamson, half-sister Carmelyte, sister Mary Frank, and brother O.C. Jr.) across the Ohio River to Cincinnati in about 1859. O.C. Williamson was in the steamboat business and died in 1866. C.S. was educated at Chickering Classical and Scientific Institute, a private preparatory high school, and then at Nelson Business College, both in Cincinnati. After his education, C.S. got his first job, as a clerk at the Peoples Ice Company in Cincinnati. Soon after, he began working for his uncle, Captain John A. Williamson, as a clerk in the ship chandler business at the Public Landing in Cincinnati and then as a steamboat agent. He visited Hot Springs, Arkansas, several times in the early 1870s where he met Frances Lydia (Fannie) Gaines, daughter of William Haney and Maria Belding Gaines, who had extensive property holdings in Hot Springs. C. S. moved there in 1875, and on October 18th of that year he married Fannie Gaines and established himself in the hotel and real estate business. He built the Great Northern Hotel and Bathhouse around 1892, which was located near the train station and catered to traveling businessmen. He and Fannie had three daughters and a son in Hot Springs, but they were divorced in November 1902. In December of that year he married Ida L. McKeand (nee Miller) and moved to St. Louis, where he and Ida lived with her two sons, Charles and Leo McKeand. C.S. lived in St. Louis for the next forty years, where he was a building inspector and managed his real estate holdings. Around 1943, in ill health and alone following Ida’s death in December 1940, C. S. Williamson moved back to Hot Springs. He died at New Park Hospital on 2 October 1944 from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 93.
C.S. Williamson was born in Covington, Kentucky, in 1851 and then moved (with his parents Ovid C. and Etna Williamson, half-sister Carmelyte, sister Mary Frank, and brother O.C. Jr.) across the Ohio River to Cincinnati in about 1859. O.C. Williamson was in the steamboat business and died in 1866. C.S. was educated at Chickering Classical and Scientific Institute, a private preparatory high school, and then at Nelson Business College, both in Cincinnati. After his education, C.S. got his first job, as a clerk at the Peoples Ice Company in Cincinnati. Soon after, he began working for his uncle, Captain John A. Williamson, as a clerk in the ship chandler business at the Public Landing in Cincinnati and then as a steamboat agent. He visited Hot Springs, Arkansas, several times in the early 1870s where he met Frances Lydia (Fannie) Gaines, daughter of William Haney and Maria Belding Gaines, who had extensive property holdings in Hot Springs. C. S. moved there in 1875, and on October 18th of that year he married Fannie Gaines and established himself in the hotel and real estate business. He built the Great Northern Hotel and Bathhouse around 1892, which was located near the train station and catered to traveling businessmen. He and Fannie had three daughters and a son in Hot Springs, but they were divorced in November 1902. In December of that year he married Ida L. McKeand (nee Miller) and moved to St. Louis, where he and Ida lived with her two sons, Charles and Leo McKeand. C.S. lived in St. Louis for the next forty years, where he was a building inspector and managed his real estate holdings. Around 1943, in ill health and alone following Ida’s death in December 1940, C. S. Williamson moved back to Hot Springs. He died at New Park Hospital on 2 October 1944 from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 93.
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