William Wilson    

WILLIAM WILSON, farmer., P.O. Meadville, was born in Woodcock Township, this county, in 1832, and is a son of George and Isabel (Birney) Wilson, natives of County Armagh, Ireland, who settled in Woodcock Township, this county, in 1830, on the farm now owned by Daniel Whitehead, which they cleared and improved. They were parents of thirteen children, ten now living: Celia, Rachel, Margaret, Jane, Anabel, Thomas, James, William, George and Edward. Our subject was married March 18, 1877, to Harriet, daughter of James Foster, of New York. By this union are two children: Willie and Isabel. Mr. Wilson has always lived in his native township, residing on the old homestead until the spring of 1884, when he traded for the farm where he now resides. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal and his wife of the Episcopal Church.

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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