JOHN D. WILSON
Arizona Republican Newspaper
October 12, 1901

The Republican has received the following communication 
from Captain A.F. Banta, announcing the death of John D. 
Wilson, late proprietor of the Pima Paragon:

"Died at Naco, Ariz., October 9, 1901, John Davis Wilson, 
a native of Louisiana.  The deceased founded and edited 
the Pima Paragon, published in Pima, Graham Co. Ariz. Our 
deceased brother of the quill was gifted with more than 
average ability but as with a majority in his line, those 
abilities were exerted for the good of the whole if ever 
more than half appreciated by the whole.  He leaves a wife 
and children to mourn over the loss of a husband and 
father.  In the late war with Spain the deceased served 
in Company I, First Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, with 
the rank of high private in the rear rank.  The First 
Louisiana volunteer infantry were mustered out at 
Jacksonville, Fla. October 3, 1898.  After being mustered 
out of service, the deceased wrote a booklet of fifty 
six pages, entitled "Colonel Billy and his Kids and How 
They Avenged Maine."  A History of the First Louisiana 
Volunteer Infantry, from Reville to Tapes by "Hot Stuff" 
Wilson was also published.  

Early last summer Mr. Wilson printed a touching confession 
in the Paragon. He said he had been shamelessly receiving 
credit for work he did not do.  His faithful wife had been 
editing his paper and had been doing it well, notwithstanding 
she was handicapped by the necessity of nursing him in a 
helpless illness, during which he had permitted the public 
to suppose that he was conducting his paper.  

Mr. Wilson, soon after the Spanish American War came to 
Phoenix where he worked in the mechanical departments of 
some of the newspapers.