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Source: Vol. II  pg.167  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present    

        HAROLD M. WILSON.  A number of young men with reputations already made
in professional affairs have located at Miami since the war, in which they saw
service, and one of them is HAROLD M. WILSON, a former lawyer of New York City
and now member of one of the most successful law firms in the state.
	Mr. Wilson was born at Newburgh, New York, September 5, 1875. He was
reared in his native city, and completed his education at Yale University,
graduating in 1898 A. B. He received the degree LL. B. from New York Law School
in 1900, and was admitted to practice in New York State the same year. His
professional associations were in New York until early in the war.
	In June, 1917, he entered the United States Army as first lieutenant, 
Signal Reserve Corps, and was assigned to duty at Camp Alfred Vail, New Jersey. 
In June, 1918, he was commissioned captain Signal Corps U. S. A. Mr. Wilson 
held various assignments of duty throughout the country during the war and for 
about a year after the signing of the armistice. He was with the Three Hundred 
and Twentieth Field Signal Battalion, Eighty-eighth Division U. S. A., at Camp 
Dodge, Iowa, and also at Camp Fremont, California, with the Eighth Division U. 
S. A.; was camp signal officer and commanding officer of the Forty-seventh 
Signal Service Battalion at Camp Hancock, Augustus, Georgia, subsequently was 
sent to Franklin Cantonment South Carolina, Camp Meade, Maryland as commanding 
officer Company G, Thirteenth Depot Brigade S. C., and then once more at Camp 
Vail was with the Four Hundred and Twenty-fifth Telegraph Battalion S. C. After
the armistice he was assigned to duty in New Orleans with the Law Enforcement
Division of the army, in charge of the Fifth District, comprising Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana, and received
his honorable discharge at Washington, October 31, 1919, after two years and
four months with the colors.
	Coming to Miami, Mr. Wilson on January 1, 1920, became associated with 
the law firm of Shutts & Bowen. This is not only one of the largest law firms 
in Florida, but in the South. Captain Wilson has charge of the firm’s probate
matters and all litigation connected with the Probate Courts, and is with the
common law department.
	Miami citizenship has welcomed him into the leading social and civic
activities, and he was the first president of the Miami Civitan Club which was
organized in May, 1921, and now has about seventy members. He is also an
International Trustee of the International Association of Civitan clubs, the
president of which is OLIVER W. ANDREWS of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Captain
Wilson is a member of the Miami Chamber of Commerce, the American Legion, is
Chairman of the board of visitors in charge of the Dade County Home for
delinquent and dependent girls, and is treasurer of the Board of Directors of
the Christian Hospital.
	At Jacksonville, Florida, in July, 1917, Capt. Wilson married MARGARET
VIRGINIA SHINE of that city. They have one daughter MARGARET VIRGINIA WILSON,
born September 17, 1921.


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