Wilson, James Jefferson – Wilson, Samuel B
Wilson, James Jefferson
journalist, United States senator, was born in 1775 in Essex county, N. J. He was a senator in congress from New Jersey from 1815 to 1821, when he resigned, and was appointed postmaster at Trenton. He was at one time adjutant-general of the state.
He died July 28, 1824, in Trenton, N. J.
Wilson, James Patriot
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 21, 1769, in Lewes, Del. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, and the author of Lectures on the Parables; Essay on Grammar; Common Objections to Christianity; and Easy Introduction to Hebrew. He died in 1830.
Wilson, Jeremiah M
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1828, in Warren county, Ohio. He was judge of common pleas from 1860 to 1865, and was judge of the circuit court from 1865 until elected from Ohio to the forty-second congress. He was re-elected to the fortythird congress.
Wilson, John
clergyman, author, was born in 1588 in England. He was a puritan clergyman, the first pastor in Boston, and long prominent in the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the colony. He was the author of Some Helps to Faith; Famous Deliverances of the English Nation, a poem; and The Day Breaking if not the Sun Rising of the Gospel with the Indians in New England. He died Aug. 7, 1667, in Boston, Mass.
Wilson, John
congressman, was born in 1777. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1813 to 1816, and from 1817 to 1818. He died July 9, 1848, in Belfast, Maine. was
Wilson, John
congressman, born in York, S. C. He was a presidential elector in 1809, and was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1821 to 1827.
Wilson, John
printer, author, was born April 16, 1802, in Scotland. He was a Scottish printer who came to America in 1846, and established himself in the printing business in Cambridge. A Treatise on English Punctuation is his best-known work, but he wrote others on Scripture Proofs of Unitarianism; The Concessions of Trinitarians; and Unitarian Principles Confirmed. He died Aug. 3, 1868, in Cambridge, Mass.
Wilson, John a. B
clergyman, was born in 1848, in Delaware. He entered the ministry at the age of twenty, and for nine years was known as the phenomenal presiding elder of methodism. In 1892 he went to New York and became noted as a great clergyman, reformer and founder of the Co-operato, a home for selfsupporting working girls. During 1895- 97 he was in charge of the First church of Los Angeles, Cal., and is now pastor of the Howard Street Methodist church of San Francisco.
Wilson, John Grover
clergyman, author, was born in 1810 in Miauletown, Del. He was a Philadelphia clergyman, originally of the methodist episcopal denomination, but after 1855 the church of which he was pastor was known as the Ebenezer Independent church. Among his various works are, Discourses on Prophecy; Writings in Prose and Verse; The Sabbath and Its Law; and Atheism and Theism. He died Feb. 20, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Wilson, John Henry
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 1846. He was elected to the Kentucky state senate in 1883 for a term of four years, and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Wilson, John L
congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 7, 1850, in Crawfordsville, Ind. He was elected a representative to the state legislature of Indiana in 1880 from Montgomery county.
He was appointed receiver of public moneys at Spokane and served four years, and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican, being the first member of congress elected from the state of Washington. He was unanimously renominated and re-elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses, and while serving as a member of the fifty-third congress, was elected to the United States senate to fill a vacancy, and took his seat in the senate Feb. 19, 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.
Wilson, John Laird
journalist, author, was born Sept. 20, 1832, in Scotland. He is a journalist of New York city, but prior to 1866 a united presbyterian minister in Scotland. He is the author of The Battles of the Civil War; and Life of John Wycliffe.
Wilson, John Leighton
missionary, author, was born March 25, 1809, în Sumter county, S. C. He was a presbyterian missionary to Africa, and the author of Western Africa: Its History, Condition, and Prospects (1857). He died July 13, 1886, in Mayesville, S. C.
Wilson, John Lyde
lawyer, state senator, governor, author, was born May 24, 1784, in Marlborough, S. C. He began to practice in Georgetown and in 1808 he was returned to the South Carolina house of representatives from Prince George Winyaw. He was repeatedly reelected and subsequently was chosen senator. In 1822 he was made president of the senate, and during the same year elected governor and commander-in-chief.
In 1827 he was again elected to the senate. In 1838 he published a Code of Hon- He died Feb. 12, 1849, in Charleston, or.
S. C.
Wilson, John T
soldier, agriculturist, state senator, congressman, was born April 16, 1811, in Highland county, Ohio.
In 1861 he raised a company for the war, and was commissioned as its captain. He was subsequently twice elected to the Ohio senate. In 1866 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortieth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-first and forty-second congresses.
Wilson, Joseph G
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 13, 1826, in Acworth, N. H.
He moved to Oreon and in 1852 began the practice of law in Salem. In 1862 he was appointed judge of the fifth judicial district, and was elected to the same position in 1864. In 1872 he was elected a member of congress, but died before qualifying.
He died in July, 1873, in Georgetown, D. C.
Wilson, Joseph Miller
civil engineer, was born June 20, 1838, in Phœnixville, Pa. Among the important structures that he has built are the Susquehanna bridge at Harrisburg, the Schuylkill river bridge of the Filbert street line in Philadelphia, and bridges at Trenton, and New Brunswick, N. J. He designed the Drexel bank and the Drexel building in Philadelphia, the St. Francis de Sales Industrial school in Eddington, Pa., and other buildings.
Wilson, Lemuel G
educator, merchant, poet, was born April 30, 1836, in Mount Gilead, Ohio. He attended Cornell college for three years, and then engaged in educational work. He has been a photographer, commercial traveler and is now a successful merchant of Parsons, N. D. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems which have appeared in the periodical press, and in Poets of America and other standard works.
Wilson, Nathan
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York, from 1808 to 1809.
Wilson, Obed Jay
publisher, poet, was born Aug. 30, 1826, in Bingham, Maine. In 1852 he entered the publishing house of Winthrop B. Smith and Company as literary referee, and became at a later date editor-in-chief of their publications.
In 1862 the firm made him a partner, and in 1869 he rose to the head of the house.
Under the style of Wilson, Hinkle and Company, the firm became one of the largest school book publishing houses in the United States. In 1891 the business was merged in that of the American Book company. He has written much in prose and verse in an easy, graceful and forcible style, and owes his remarkable success to a combination of the qualities of a business man and a writer.
Wilson, Peter
educator, author, was born Nov. 23, 1746, in Scotland. He was an educator of New York city, classical professor at Columbia college in 1789-92, and in 1797-1820; and the author of Rules of Latin Prosody; Introduction to Greek Prosody; and Compendium of Greek Prosody. He died Aug. 1, 1825, in New Barbadoes, N. J.
Wilson, Robert
United States senator. He was appointed a senator in congress from Missouri, taking his seat in 1861, and continued in the position until November, 1863. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia National union convention of 1866.
Wilson, Robert Anderson
lawyer, author, was born in 1812 in New York. He is a lawyer of California and the author of Mexico and Its Religion, reissued as Mexico, California, and Central America; and New History of the Conquest of Mexico.
Wilson, Robert Burns
artist, poet, was born in 1850 in Pennsylvania.
He was an artist and poet of Louisville, and the author of Life and Love, a volume of verse.
Wilson, Robert G
college president, was born Dec. 30, 1768, in Lincoln county, N. C. In 1824 he was elected president of the Ohio university, serving until 1839. He died April 17, 1851, in South Salem, Ohio.
Wilson, Robert P. C
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in Boonville, Mo. He was one of the democratic members of the house of representatives from Leavenworth county in the first general assembly of Kansas, and during that year returned to Missouri.
He was elected member from Platte county to the twenty-sixth general assembly, and made speaker of the house. a He was state senator from the third district from 1876 to 1880, and was for several years president of the Agricultural and Stock association of his county. He was elected as a democrat to fill a vacancy in the fifty-first congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-second congress.
Wilson, Samuel B
college president, was born about 1782. In 1847 he was elected president of Hampden Sidney college, resigning in 1848. He died in August, 1869.