Mitchell Williams, of 54 Anderson Street, won the Inaugural Harold T. Post of the American Legion swim from Peaks to Portland race in 1927. Organizers held the event on August 6, 1927. He finished the three-mile race in two hours and eighteen and a half minutes, taking first place after Paul Fraser was disqualified as a professional athlete.

A Portland native, Williams was born on August 15, 1891. He was a graduate of Portland High School and Tuskegee Institute. Williams worked as a truck driver for Maine Freightways for forty years until his retirement in 1968. Standing behind him is his wife, Florence Eastman Williams, born in Portland in 1892. They married in 1912.