C. D. Wilson

    C. D. Wilson is a native of Oswego County, New York, where he was born April 15, 1839. His father, William P. Wilson, was a son of Samuel Wilson, of Scotch origin, who in an early day settled in Chenango County, New York, and lived there until his death. He was by occupation a miller, and reared a large family, of whom six were sons -Thomas, Harry, Merritt, James, Benjamin and William, the father of our subject, who married in Oswego County, New York, a Miss Lovina Shipman, and in 1847 removed to Bureau County, Illinois, and thence to La Salle County, where he died in 1851, leaving a family of Jane, Emily, Charles D., Parmelia and Sophronia.

     C.D. Wilson, our subject was married in La Salle County, Illinois, November  5, 1858, to Sarah, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Wilson. In 1872, Mr. Wilson removed to this county and made a home. By the above stated marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson became the parents of eleven children -William P., Henry E., Lovina E., Warren A., Charles O., Bertie L., Della, Alfred, Ira, Nettie M. and Stella M.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.