Frank H. Wilson    

FRANK H. WILSON (deceased) was born near Doylestown, Bucks Co., Penn., July 1, 1813, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Himmelright) Wilson, who, in the fall of 1827, brought their family and household goods in wagons and drove stock over the Alleghenies to Meadville, being nearly four weeks on the journey. They located the same season on a farm on Woodcock Creek, four miles east of Saegertown. Our subject was fourteen years old at the time, and assisted his father to cut the timber preparatory to erecting a large log-house, where the whole family were reared. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson were parents of twelve children: Francis H. (deceased), Mary A. (wife of John H. Culbertson), William (deceased), James, Alfred, Charlotte (deceased), Julia A. (wife of Hiram Spencer), Redding, John (deceased), Joseph C., Emily (wife of Simeon Dickson) and Price. Our subject, the eldest, was married February 2, 1860, to Eliza, daughter of Patrick and Mary (Sloan) Blair, natives of Ireland, and who settled in this township in 1835. By this union there was one child— Agnes M., wife of Robert G. Davison, who has two children: Frank W. and James H. Mr. Wilson has always been a farmer and resided on the old homestead until his death, which occurred November 28, 1882, in his seventieth year. He was wedded to his occupation and early in life formed habits of industry, economy and frugality. He attained success in his favorite calling, and his farm was a model of neatness, order and thrift. For many years previous to his demise he was subject to a peculiarly afflicting malady, which to a great extent prevented him from associating with the world, obliging him to lead somewhat the life of a recluse. His widow and daughter live on the old homestead.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885.  View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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