Husband William Armstrong Wilson 1 2
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Father: Armstrong Wilson (1806-Bef 1883) 3
Mother: Jane "Jennie" Hutchison (1808-Bef 1883) 4 5
Marriage: 2 Jun 1864 2
• Residence: : Sugar Creek Twp, Armstrong Co, PA. View of the residence of Wm. Armstrong Wilson from the History of Armstrong County, PA, 1883; pg. 532x
Wife Mina Hart 2
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Father: William Hart ( - ) 2
Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] ( - ) 2
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1 M Andrew Newton Wilson 2
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2 F Elizabeth Jane Wilson 2
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3 F Ethelda Eudel Wilson 2
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General Notes: Husband - William Armstrong Wilson
He was reared on the farm, and received only the limited education which the primitive schools of the time in his neighborhood afforded. At the age of twenty-four he enlisted in Co. G, 134th regt. Pa. Vols., for the nine months service. When he was twenty-one years of age, he came into possession of his father's farm in Butler County, Pennsylvania, about 106 acres of land, worth perhaps $30 per acre. In 1872 petroleum was discovered on the farm adjoining his, which led to his leasing 15 acres of land to oil operators, who gave him a one-eighth royalty, and this led to the sale of the farm for the snug sum of $40,000. Soon afterward he purchased his father-in-law's old homestead in Sugar Creek township, Armstrong County, a good farm of 122 acres, on which he thereafter resided. He gave for this farm about $12,000, and spent fully two-thirds of that sum in buildings and other improvements, and made himself a pleasant and beautiful home. He had a half interest in a general store at Grove City, Mercer County, the capital stock of which was $10,000, and his son represented him in its management. He and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian church of East Brady. In politics he was purely and strongly republican. [HAC 1883, 608]