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Wilson, Thomas
congressman, was born in 1771. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1817. He died Oct. 4, 1824, in Erie, Pa.
Wilson, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1811 to 1813. He died Jan. 24, 1826.
Wilson, Thomas
printer, author, was born in 1768 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia printer; and the author of Principal American Military and Naval Heroes; and The Picture of Philadelphia for 1824. He died about 1828 in Philadelphia, Pa.
Wilson, Thomas Bellerby
physician, naturalist, was born Jan. 17, 1807, in Philadelphia. In 1832 he was elected to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and at once took an active part in its proceedings. Its library was largely created through his liberality, and his collection of birds, which then ranked as the third in the world, was presented by him to the academy, of which he was president in 1863-64. He died March 15, 1865, in Newark, Del.
Wilson, Thomas E
builder, poet, was born Sept. 6, 1839, in Kittery, Maine.
Since 1870 he has been successfully engaged as a contractor and builder, principally in Boston, Mass. He is the author of a volume of collected poems; and is represented in Poets of America, Poets of Maine, and other standard works.
Wilson, Thomas S
lawyer, jurist, was an early emigrant to Iowa territory; and in 1838 was appointed United States judge for that district.
Wilson, W. Hasell
railroad president, was born in 1811 in Charleston, S. C. Since 1884 he has been president of the Belvidere-Delaware railway at Philadelphia, Pa.
Wilson, William
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1814 to 1819.
Wilson, William
congressman, was born in 1772 in Hillsborough county, N. H.
He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1823 to 1827. He died in 1827.
Wilson, William
journalist, poet, was born Dec. 26, 1801, in Scotland. He was a Scottish poet and journalist who became a bookseller in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1854. He was the author of Poems, edited by B. J. Lossing. He died Aug. 25, 1860, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Wilson, William
lumber manufacturer, was born Feb. 9, 1807, in Lycoming county, Pa. In 1832 he was a contractor a on the Illinois Central canal; afterward established stage line between Burlington and Keokuk, Iowa, where he has also been a justice of the peace.
About 1846 he moved to Menomonie, Wis., and commenced lumbering operations, and for over fifty a years has been successful lumber merchant and manufacturer; and taken a prominent part in the public affairs of Wisconsin.
Wilson, William Dexter
clergyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 28, 1816, in Stoddard, N. H. He is an episcopal clergyman of Syracuse, professor of philosophy at Cornell university in 1868- 86; and the author of History of the Reformation in England; The Church Identified; Psychology; The Foundations of Religious Belief; Elementary Treatise on Logic; Live Questions in Psychology and Metaphysics; and Introduction to the Study of the History of Philosophy.