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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 12 January 2005 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Turtlecreek Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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ROBERT WILSON (deceased) was born in Rockbridge Co., Va., Nov. 10, 1797, and came with his parents to Hopkinsville, Warren Co., Ohio, about the year A. D. 1808, when about 11 years of age. His parents being of limited means, his boyhood was devoted to his own support and to obtaining such education as the country schools of that day afforded. He taught the school at Hopkinsville and was, for a number of years, Justice of the Peace of Hamilton Township. He was Assessor, and, for a number of years, Treasurer, of the county, and represented it one term in the Legislature. In 1843, he removed from Hopkinsville to a farm, purchased about that time, in Union Township, Warren Co., about three miles south of Lebanon, where he resided until his death, Nov. 15, 1854 He was an intelligent and progressive farmer, and was among the foremost to introduce the improvements in machinery and methods of culture, which have lightened the farmer's toil and given it better reward, and, as a means to this end, was active in the organization of the Warren County Agricultural Society. From his early manhood to his death, he was a member of the Associate Reformed Church, at Hopkinsville, and by his life, commended industry, education, morality and religion. On the 25th of August, A. D. 1825, he was married to Martha Smith, daughter of James and Nancy Smith, pioneers of Hamilton Township. Mrs. Wilson died at Lebanon July 29, 1881, aged nearly 80 years. They had eight children, of whom the following brief mention is made: Elizabeth H. Wilson, wife of Allison L. Scott, Esq., who died January, 1859. Jeremiah M. Wilson, attorney at law; admitted to the bar at Lebanon, Ohio, Gen. Durbin Ward being his tutor; located at Connersville, Ind., and practiced his profession and served as Judge of the Circuit Court for a number of years, and represented his district two terms in Con- |
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gress, and since then has followed his profession at Washington, D. C., where he now resides. William W. Wilson, attorney at law, Lebanon, Ohio; admitted to the bar in August, 1854; served in the army as Captain of Company A, 79th O. V. I., and Major of the regiment from August, 1862, to November, 1864, when discharged for disability incurred in Sherman's "Atlanta campaign;" in April, 1865, was elected Mayor of Lebanon; in October, 1865, was elected Probate Judge of Warren County, and held that office until October, 1869, when he resigned and was elected Representative of the county in the Legislature, serving one term in 1870 and 1871. James S. Wilson, of Kansas City, Mo., was engaged as clerk in a mercantile house at Hamilton, Ohio, at the beginning of the rebellion; went out in the 3d O. V, I., and served as Lieutenant, Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of his brigade throughout the war, taking part in all the hard campaigns and most of the great battles of the army commanded by Buell, Rosecrans and Thomas, known in the later years of the war as the Army of the Cumberland; since the war, be has been employed in the internal revenue and railroad service. Providence M. Wilson was in mercantile employment at Franklin, Warren Co., and enlisted there in the 2d Ohio three-months' regiment of volunteers; was in the first battle of Bull Run, Va.; is now a merchant in Arkansas. Robert B. Wilson, attorney at law, Cincinnati, Ohio; at the beginning of the late war, was a student at Lebanon, and enlisted in Capt Rigdon Williams' Company F, 12th O. V. I.; he was appointed a Sergeant and served through the war, participating in the campaigns and battles in West Virginia and in Maryland and Pennsylvania, attending Lee's invasion; he was a Captain at the close of the war. Marshall L. Wilson, at the beginning of the war was a boy on the home farm; in 1862, he served with the forces holding Cumberland Gap, Tenn.; has since been in the railway-telegraph service, and now resides in Illinois. Americus Wilson, the youngest son, near the close of the war enlisted in a 100-day regiment and served in Western Virginia; since the war, he has been engaged in the railway service, and now resides at Logan, Ohio. |
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