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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II



p. 326-327



FLOYD J. WILSON.

	Floyd J. Wilson, attorney at law practicing at the Denver bar, 
was born in Lansing, Michigan, on the 7th of May, 1881, a son of John 
B. and Emma S. (White) Wilson. The father was born in the state of New 
York and following his removal to the west engaged in the manufacture 
of machinery and farm implements, living for many years in Michigan. 
His death occurred February 22, 1917. His widow, who was born at Eaton 
Rapids, Michigan, now makes her home with a daughter in Seattle, 
Washington.

	Floyd J. Wilson, after completing a course in the high school at 
Lansing. Michigan, with the class of 1899, became a student in the 
Michigan Agricultural College, in which he studied for two years and 
was graduated on the completion of the engineering course in the class 
of 1903. He next entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and 
won his LL. B. degree as a member of the class of 1906. The same year 
he was admitted to the Michigan bar at Lansing and for a short time 
continued in active practice in that city, but attracted by the 
opportunities of the growing west, he made his way to Tonopah, Nevada, 
where he became connected with the engineering department of the 
Tonopah & Goldfleld Railroad. He occupied that position for two years 
and afterward removed to Denver, where he took up his abode in 1909. In 
this city he entered upon the practice of law and after three years' 
association with a law firm took up general practice alone. He 
concentrates his efforts and attention largely upon mining and 
corporation law and in these branches of the profession has developed 
marked power and ability because of his close and discriminating study. 
He is familiar with precedent and with principle bearing upon those 
lines of litigation and he has done much important work in that field 
of jurisprudence. He is likewise interested in the oil business and is 
one of the representative young men of the west, alert, energetic and 
progressive, who is here finding broad scope for the exercise of his 
dominant qualities and who by unabating and intelligently directed 
effort is meeting with substantial success.