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Augustus Warner Williams
1844–1920
Best remembered for writing on religion, history, and current crises of his day, this 19th-century minister-author brought urgent subjects to a broad popular audience. His books range from a study of the Irish poet James Clarence Mangan to a life of evangelist Dwight L. Moody and the widely circulated Bleeding Armenia.
1 Audiobook
Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam
by Augustus Warner Williams, M. Smbat Gabrielean
About the author
Augustus Warner Williams (1844–1920) was an American clergyman and author whose surviving works show a strong interest in religion, biography, and moral reform. Catalog and library records connect him with several books published across the second half of the 19th century, including James Clarence Mangan (1865), Life and Work of Dwight L. Moody, and Bleeding Armenia: Its History and Horrors Under the Curse of Islam.
His writing suggests a preacher's voice aimed at general readers: direct, earnest, and focused on people and causes he believed deserved wider attention. In Life and Work of Dwight L. Moody, he turned to popular religious biography, while Bleeding Armenia, written with M. Smbat Gabrielean, addressed the persecution of Armenians and helped present that crisis to English-speaking readers.
Little biographical detail about Williams himself was easy to confirm from major public sources beyond his dates and bibliography. Even so, the record of his books shows a writer engaged with the religious and humanitarian debates of his era, and one whose work still survives through digital libraries and reprints.