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Wilson, John – Wilson, Lemuel G

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 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 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 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.