Cornelius Wilson and Sarah Cummings

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Husband Cornelius Wilson ¹

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           Born: 13 Jan 1810 - Kinderhook, Columbia Co, NY 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Mar 1893 - ? Venango Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Hugh Wilson (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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       Marriage:  - Ontario, Canada

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   Other Spouse: Mary McMaster (1818-1898) 1

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Wife Sarah Cummings ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 29 Mar 1841
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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Children

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1 F Cecilia Wilson ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 12 Dec 1892 - ? Warren Co, PA 1
         Buried: 

         Spouse: T. C. Paden (      -      ) 1

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2 F Eliza Wilson ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 25 Oct 1910 1
         Buried:  - Mill Creek Cemetery, Utica, Frenchcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 4

         Spouse: Morris Parker (      -1861/1865) 1

         Spouse: James P. Cassidy (1838-1923)
           Marr: 10 Nov 1866

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3 M William Wilson ¹

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           Born: 4 Mar 1841 1
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1861-1865 - Fair Oaks, Henrico Co, VA
         Buried: 

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General Notes: Husband - Cornelius Wilson

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He was a child at the time of his father’s death. During his young manhood he went to Canada, where he was employed as a tanner and journeyman shoemaker, and while in Ontario he married, the young couple coming to Pennsylvania soon afterward and settling at Utica, Venango County. He built a tannery on what was later known as Anderson Hill, but after a few years, in 1841, he left this enterprise and went to a farm on the North Sandy creek, in French Creek Township, five miles south of Utica, following agriculture for a number of years thereafter. He had improved this property greatly by the time he traded it, in 1858, for a tannery and water power on Mill creek, at the point where the latter empties into French creek, getting it from the original owner, David Goodard. The water power came through a race from A. W. Raymond’s mill pond, a quarter of a mile up the creek. He did custom work at the tannery and bought and sold leather, which he worked up into boots and shoes, harness, etc., in time building up a large business which gave employment to five or six men besides those engaged in the tannery. He continued thus until 1872, when, taking advantage of the change in conditions created by the expansion of the oil business, he converted his shop into a factory for the production of sucker rods for oil well pumps, the business from that time being operated under the name of C. Wilson & Sons. The manufacture flourished, six men being generally employed, and though the trade shrank somewhat when the local oil operations decreased temporarily it was built up again by the application of modern methods and the enterprise of the owners, who sought patronage elsewhere when shipping facilities made one customer as accessible as another. Though Cornelius Wilson remained the nominal head of the firm until his death he had lived practically retired for about twenty years previously, and the firm of Wilson Brothers succeeded the original organization, F. M. & E. A. Wilson constituting the concern. [CAB, 591]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 591.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 590.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 6, Frenchcreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1998), Pg 25.

4 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 6, Frenchcreek Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1998), Pg 56.