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Wilson, Nathan

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York, from 1808 to 1809.

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, 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.

Wilson, Samuel Farmer

journalist, author, was born in 1805 in Connecticut. He was a New Orleans journalist, and the author of History of the American Revolution, long a popular work. He died March 11, 1870, in New Orleans, La.

Wilson, Samuel Graham

missionary, author. He is a presbyterian missionary in Persia, and the author of Persian Life and Customs. was

Wilson, Stanyarne

lawyer, congressman, was born in Yorkville, S. C. He elected to the South Carolina legislature in 1884, and to the senate in 1892. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1895, and was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Wilson, Stephen F

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1821, in Columbia, Pa. He was a senator in the Pennsylvania state legislature in 1863 and 1864, and although returned to the state senate, was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fortieth congress as a republican.

Wilson, Thomas

merchant, philanthropist, was born Feb. 5, 1789, in Hartford county, Md. By his will he devoted $625,000 to various charities, endowing the Thomas Wilson sanitarium for children -an institution designed to take care of sick children during the summer months -with $500,000; and a fuel-saving society -to aid deserving poor people to purchase their fuel cheaply, and sewing-women to obtain sewing-machines at low cost-with $100,000. He died Sept. 2, 1879, in Baltimore, Md.