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Wilson, David – Wilson, Henry Isaiah
Wilson, David
legislator, author, was born Sept. 17, 1818, in West Hebron, N. Y. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1852, and in 1854 declined a nomination for congress. He published Life in Whitehall: a Tale of Ship-Fever Times; Solomon Northrup, or Twelve Years a Slave, a narrative of the abduction and enslavement of a free negro of Washington county; and Life of Jane McCrea. He died June 9, 1887, in Albany, N. Y.
Wilson, E. K
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1827 to 1831.
Wilson, Edgar
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 25, 1861, in Armstrong county, Pa. He graduated in 1884 from Michigan university school of law. For two years he was district attorney of Ada county, Idaho. In 1886- 88 he was a member of the constitutional convention, and in 1890 was elected a member of the fiftyfourth congress, representing the state of Idaho at large.
Wilson, Edgar C
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1833 to 1835. He died in May, 1860, in Morgantown, Va.
Wilson, Ervin A
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 23, 1856, in Lehi, Utah. He has filled numerous positions of honor in Provo City, Utah; was superintendent of schools of his county; president board of education; and in 1896 was elected for a term of five years as judge of the fourth district court of state of Utah.
Wilson, Eugene M
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1833, in Morgan county, Va. He was United States district attorney for Minnesota from 1857 to 1861, and served as a captain in the war for the union. He was elected a representative from Minnesota to the fortyfirst congress as a democrat. He practices law in Minneapolis.
Wilson, Francis Henry
lawyer, congressman, was born in Westmoreland, N. Y. He took a prominent part in the organization of the Union League club of Brooklyn, N. Y., of which organization he was president for four successive years.
He was elected to the fifty-fourth and reelected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. In 1897 he was appointed postmaster of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Wilson, George Henry
musical writer, was born Feb. 18, 1854, in Lawrence, Mass. He is the musical critic of the Boston Traveler, and in 1883 began the Boston Musical Year-Book, the title of which was changed in 1886 to the Musical Year-Book of the United States. Since 1885 he has prepared annually an analytical and historical programme of the concerts of the Boston symphony orchestra.
Wilson, George West
journalist, was born May 10, 1859, in Boone county, Ky. He has been United States collector of internal revenue for the district of Florida; chairman and secretary of various democratic campaign committees in Florida; president of the Ocala exposition, and executive officer in many enterprises. He is now the editor and owner of the Florida Citizen of Jacksonville.
Wilson, Henry
congressman, was born in Dauphin county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1826. He died Aug. 14, 1826, in Allentown, Pa.
Wilson, Henry Isaiah
educator, musician, lawyer, was born April 10, 1869, near Wellsboro, Pa. He has attained success as a school teacher, teacher of music and instructor of bands and orchestras.
He is a composer of several well-known pieces for bands and the violin, and has the reputation of being one of the best euphonium soloists in the state of Pennsylvania. In 1892 he was admitted to the bar, and has since practiced that profession in Big Run, Pa.