Born in Norfolk, Virginia (1882), George C. Williams is one of the brightest young minds of Rural America. George grew up in the smoky docks and train lines of late 19th century Norfolk, during the spark of the cities rapid urbanization and growth as a maritime and trade city. He spent his youth fascinated by the industrial machinery and urbanization of the coastal city. His natural aptitude for subjects like Mathematics and History quickly set him apart from his peers, and earned himself a reputation as a local academic prodigy. Williams attended Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, graduating at the top of his class in 1902 at just 20 with a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. He settled for the career stability of the engineering degree, but fed his intellectual passion by auditing the schools newly growing Math and Physics seminars introduced by Professor Charles E. Vawter, Jr. During his time at VPI, he secretly drifted into underground student labor circles, returning to Norfolk as a convinced socialist in secret. For the last four years, the difficulties of the Gilded Age industrial system has totally damaged his optimism. Suffering abuse as a poorly paid junior engineer at the Norfolk yards, he has spent each tough shift seeing how corporate executives pay no attention to his potential and the basic human rights of workers, instead focusing on the profits of there companies through the exploitations of there workers. Now, in 1906, he is looking for a means by which to escape his claustrophobic life as a corporate employee, saving money to go to Europe to study Physics, with a secret intention of partaking in notable socialist parties and meeting.
