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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gardner F. Williams (14 Mar 1842 - 22 Aug 1922) was an American mining engineer and author, and the first properly trained mining engineer to be appointed in South Africa. Gardner Frederick Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan, the oldest son of Alpheus Fuller Williams, who served for many years in the American frontier forces and rose to be a colonel. Alpheus became a civil and mining engineer and, even prior to having moved his family from Saginaw to California, became well known in the mining camps.Gardner grew up in the Californian mining camps of Sierra and Yuba counties, surrounded by mining activity. His higher education began at the College of California (later to become the University of California), where he obtained a BA degree in 1865, and was completed in Freiburg, Saxony, Germany at the Royal School of Mines ( Frieberg Bergakademie Freiberg Mining Academy - he helped Alfred Nobel refine techniques of blowing up rocks with Alfred's new invention, dynamite). His mining degree was conferred three years later and, in 1868, he returned to California and rounded off his education by gaining an MA at the university (the 1st such degree conferred there) in 1869.

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