Daniel was forced to take on jobs at n early age. He became an apprentice to a cobbler, a shoemaker, for three years and also a laborer on a lake steamer. He attended Hare's Classical Academy in 1877. After he graduated from there, he and his sister began traveling looking for job opportunities. He and his sister found jobs in Janesville, Wisconsin where they both began working in a barbershop. While working in the barbershop, Daniel met Henry Palmer who was a leading physician and surgeon general in Wisconsin. Although Daniel was only 16 when he met Dr. Palmer, he saw the special qualities that Daniel possessed. Dr. Palmer took him as an apprentice in 1878. Dr. Palmer then helped pay for Daniel to attend the Chicago Medical College, which was affiliated with Northwestern University and was considered on

In 1899, he became a professor of clinical surgery at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. Meharry was one of the two black Medical schools in the nation. Dr. Williams established it's first surgical clinic. He also fought to encourage blacks to become doctors, nurses, and pharmacist as well as to become leaders in their communities.

In 1895 he helped organize the National Medical Association where he served as the first vice president along with other black doctors, nurses, and pharmacist in the Cotton State and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1898 he married schoolteacher, Alice Johnson and because of internal problems in the hospital, they moved back to Chicago. He served as a member of the Cook county Hospital, an associate attending surgeon at St. Luke's, a white hospital in Chicago. This enabled him to run one of the largest gynecological services in the city. He was invited to become a charter member of the American College of Surgeons. He resumed his position at Provident Hospital but because of a rivalry with another doctor, he left.

After this medical accomplishment, his friend Judge Walter Q. Grisham requested that he would apply for the surgeon-of-chief at Freedmen's hospital. He received an appointment by president Grover Cleveland as a surgeon-in-chief of Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. He organized and provided training for black doctors and nurses who were denied access because of their race to other medical institutions as well as access to other healthcare facilities. In 1894, he implemented a training pro

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