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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    HENRY WILSON, Attorney-at-law, was born at Montevallo, Shelby County, this
State, February 21, 1850. lie was reared and educated at Montevallo. He studied
law there for a time with B. B. Lewis (late president of the University of
Alabama), and afterward read law at Columbiana with R. W. Cobb (afterward
Governor of the State), and was admitted to the bar in April, 1871. He was
appointed Solicitor of Chilton County in that year, and remained such until
1873, when he removed to Montevallo. He has practiced law throughout Shelby and
adjoining counties from 1873 until the present time, 1888. Judge A. A. Sterrett
and Gov. P. W. Cobb were his partners until the death of Judge Sterrett, after
which time the firm name became Cobb & Wilson, including Mr. Benjamin F. Wilson,
brother of Henry. They had office sat Montevallo and Columbiana. This firm was
dissolved in 1884, and a new partnership effected with E. P. Lyman, of
Montevallo. In 1887, another change included J. L. Peters, of Bibb County, and
the firm name became Peters, Wilson & Lyman. In 1880 and 1881 Mr. Wilson
represented Shelby County in the Legislature and was on some important
committees, including the Committee on Judiciary and the Committee on Commerce
and Common Carriers.

    Mr. Wilson is a son of Dr. John B. Wilson, of Montevallo, and his
grandfather, Benjamin Wilson, was one of the pioneers of that village, long
known as Wilson's Hill. The Wilsons came from Tennessee and Virginia.

    Dr. John B. Wilson was a prominent physician of Montevallo, where he
practiced medicine for forty or fifty years. He died in 1881, about seventy
years old. He was married twice, first to a Mrs. Watrous, who died. He was next
married to Miss Amanda Bandy, a sister of Mrs. Judge Leeper. By the second
marriage there were five children who grew to maturity: three sons and two
daughters, viz.: Henry Wilson, Benjamin F., John B., Ella (who married J. L.
Peters), and Leta (who married Joe Slaton).

    The subject of this sketch was married in 1873 to Miss Augusta Allen, of
Montevallo. He is a Mason, Knight of Honor and member of the I. O. O. F.

    Mr. Wilson stands in Shelby County as a man of high character. He is well
known in the State as a fine lawyer, a man of influence, and an adherent of
Democratic principles.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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