20th Century History of New Castle and
Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens

JOHN M. WILSON,

[p. 933] whose fine farm of fifty acres is situated on the south side of the Neshannock Falls road, in Wilmington Township, about two miles from New Wilmington, was born August 18, 1853, in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of John R. and Mary (Phillips) Wilson, and a grandson of Patrick Wilson, who came to Lawrence County from Westmoreland County.

John M. Wilson was reared in Lawrence County and was mainly educated at the John Wilson School, which was named in honor of his father. He is a bricklayer by trade and for the past twenty years has been contracting in Lawrence County. He also carries on general farming, his land being well situated and particularly fertile. Mr. Wilson was married (first) to Mattie H. Gibson, who was a daughter of Samuel and Mary Gibson. Mrs. Wilson died in January, 1889, and is survived by three children: Anthony G., who is employed in the tin mill, at New Castle; Anna M., who married W. H. Baker, of Omaha, Neb. and J. Adelbert, who is a druggist residing at Deadwood, S. D., and who married Myrtle A. Lowell. The mother of these children was a consistent member of the Second United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Wilson married, secondly, Mary Courtney, who is a daughter of William and Jane (Drennan) Courtney, the former of whom was a prominent citizen of Mercer County, where he was engaged many years in milling. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have two bright, intelligent sons, William Courtney and Wendell Phillips, aged respectively fifteen and thirteen years. They are of great assistance to their father on the farm and he is giving them every advantage in his power to enable them to grow into useful and respected manhood.


20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908

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