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History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania
Edited by A. J. Davis
Pub. D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, N.Y. - 1887

         [p. 662]
         
         WILSON, HON. J. H., was born in 1841, in Monroe township,
       Clarion county, on the farm where he lives, and which he has
       owned for a number of years. He received his education in the
       public schools of Monroe township and in Reid Institute, at
       Reidsburg, Pa. At sixteen he began teaching in the public
       schools, and followed that vocation until he was twenty years
       of age. Afterwards he engaged in the mercantile business, in
       which he continued for ten years.
       
         In 1874 MR. WILSON was elected a member of the House of
       Representatives in the Pennsylvania Legislature, and served
       two terms. For a number of years he has been a successful
       farmer, while at the same time he has extended his operations
       in other lines of business, which gave him a large acquaintance
       in this and adjoining counties.
       
         In 1886 MR. WILSON was nominated and elected State Senator
       for the Thirty-eighth senatorial district, consisting of the
       counties of Cameron, Clarion, Elk and Forest. During the bi-
       ennial session of 1887, just closed, he has served his con-
       stituents faithfully, and won the confidence and esteem of
       the people and his fellow senators.
       
         His course in the performance of his legislative duties was
       such as to enable him to obtain for his constituents the en-
       actment of such laws as they desired without delay of their
       bills either in committee or elsewhere, and thus he has proven
       himself useful to his people, as well as capable.
       
         On September 18, 1866, MR. WILSON married Miss MINERVA J.
       FRAMPTON, daughter of SAMUEL FRAMPTON, and the years that have
       passed brought them conjugal happiness and worldy porsperity.
       Seven children, four boys and three girls have blessed this
       union.
       
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       Transcriber's Note: J. H. Wilson = JOHN HARVEY WILSON
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