Col. Philip Benner Wilson

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Husband Col. Philip Benner Wilson ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Dec 1822 - Chillisquaque Mills, Northumberland Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 2 Mar 1878 - Bellefonte, Centre Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Samuel Hunter Wilson (      -1841) 3 4 5 6
         Mother: Mary Benner (      -      ) 3 5 7

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Philip Benner Wilson

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He received his education at Milton, Pennsylvania. He entered the army in 1861 at Harrisburg, as captain of Company F, 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was later promoted to the majorship of the regiment. At the close of the war he returned to Bellefonte and entered the hardware business with John Irwin, Jr., the firm soon establishing a large trade and erecting a beautiful building. Later Mr. Irwin retired, and Col. Wilson associated with him in the business Thomas Hicks, the firm becoming Wilson & Hicks. The Colonel finally retired from the firm, and in connection with Col. McFarlane established another hardware store in the Humes block. At the time of his death he was the colonel of the 5th Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania.

He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati as the successor of his father, who inherited the position from Capt. William Wilson, grandfather.

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 229.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 78.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 382.

4 Editor, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 464.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 51.

6 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 323.

7 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 179.