Dr. Benjamin Gardner Wilson and Mary Margaret Aikins

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Husband Dr. Benjamin Gardner Wilson ¹

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           Born: 26 Nov 1876 - Helen Furnace, PA 1
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         Father: Samuel Winfield Wilson (1844-      ) 2
         Mother: Ella Gardner (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 1908 1

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Wife Mary Margaret Aikins ¹

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         Father: Joseph K. Aikins (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Matilda Roberts (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Eleanore Aikins Wilson ¹

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           Born: 18 Mar 1910 1
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Benjamin Gardner Wilson

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His education was received at the public school primarily. After the conclusion of his studies at Clarion State Normal School, he passed a year at the Kisk­iminetas School, after which he, in the year 1894, entered Princeton University. He was graduated from Princeton in 1898. After con­cluding the four years' course he then took a subsequent course at the University of Penn­sylvania, from which he was graduated in medicine in the year 1902. Upon obtaining his degree, he entered at once upon a general practice of his profession in Clarion. While a student at the university Dr. Wilson was a popular athlete and in 1897 he was as­sistant manager of the Princeton University baseball team. In 1898 he was president of the Princeton Athletic Association.
Beginning the practice of his profes­sion, Dr. Wilson became a member of the American, State, and County Medical Asso­ciations, and enjoyed a wide and growing prac­tice and was esteemed one of the best phy­sicians in that locality. As one of the most prominent and public-spirited men of the city, he was a member of the board of health for four years, and he held the important post of surgeon to the Pennsylvania Southern rail­way. Dr. Wilson was a director in the Clarion Water Company, and in addition to his pro­fessional activities he had varied business in­terests, principally in the gas and oil develop­ments. In 1906 he erected a substantial busi­ness and residential property on the corner of Main street and Sixth avenue, Clarion. He was a member of the Sigma Chi at the University of Pennsylvania and of the University Cottage Club of Princeton. Also he was a member of the Princeton Club of Philadelphia, and of the Alumni Association of Western Pennsylvania. In political beliefs Dr. Wilson was a strong Re­publican, and he was an attendant of the Baptist church, in which he had membership.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Margaret Aikins

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from Pittsburgh, PA

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 918.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 917.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 917, 918.