Biography of Charles, Cyrus & H S Wilson, Clay Co, AR

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The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of N. E. Ark.
Biographical Information.

Wilson Bros., proprietors of the Piggott Stave Factories, at Piggott, Ark., are
deserving of high tribute for the enterprise and influence which have
contributed to the commercial success of this section. All manufacturing
establishments of modern times have embraced many features of practical utility,
and the concern with which these brothers are associated is worthy of high
consideration. They located here in the spring of 1884 and established at this
point one stave factory, but two years' experience was sufficient to demonstrate
the need of increased capacity, and another factory was started in the summer of
1886 two miles from Piggott. Even this has not proved adequate, and at the
present time another is being pushed forward. Each factory has a daily capacity
of ten cords of timber, and forty men are actively occupied in various
capacities. The quality of work turned out is unexcelled, and the attention
given by the proprietors to their product is a sufficient guarantee as to its
sale. It is evident that they have only tried to make the merits of the work
satisfactory to all.

Charles, Cyrus F. and H. S. Wilson are Kentuckians by birth, and natives of
Fulton County, their father now belonging to Hickman, of that county. Dr. H. H.
Wilson was born, reared and educated in Tennessee, and there commenced the study
of medicine, subsequently graduating from one of the medical colleges of
Philadelphia. Afterward he located at Hickman. Ky., and entered upon the
successful practice of his profession. He was first married in Tennessee to Miss
Lucy Davis, of that State, after whose death he married again. Besides the three
sons living there is one daughter, a resident of Kentucky.

Cyrus F. Wilson grew to manhood at Hickman, to which place he afterward returned
and married, February 29, 1888, Mrs. Bettie Pilant, a native of Kentucky, and
daughter of Judge Riley, of Hickman. She was partially reared in Louisiana. One
child was born to this union. Nannie Belle. Mrs. Wilson is a member of the
Presbyterian Church.

H. S. Wilson was married at Martin, Tenn., March 28, 1878, to Miss Jennie
Anderson, of Tennessee, and the daughter of Edwin Anderson. They have five
children: Cora, Lucy, Claud, Stanley and Aleck.