David I. Williams (1873– 1918)
	
Dave Williams was a black man born in Lisbon, Ohio. He worked for a number of years as a porter on Pullman sleeping cars before joining the Klondike gold rush. He tried mining, opened a barber shop in Dawson, lived in several Yukon and Alaska towns and then, back in Dawson, opened a bath house and a florist shop with a collection of tropical plants.((Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her.// Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990: 22.)) He had a large hot-water heating system that kept the plants warm.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 111.)) His business was declining in 1918 and he was persuaded by Frank and William Nolan to join them in the orange-growing business in Tampa, Florida. He sold his shop and booked passage south. He was drowned with all the passengers and crew when the //Princess Sophia// sank in the Lynn Canal.((Ken Coates and Bill Morrison, //The Sinking of the Princess Sophia: Taking the North Down with Her.// Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990: 22.))