Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Wilson, William C. 1832 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  HON. WILLIAM C. WILSON, farmer, P. O. Robinson, was born in Palestine, Ill.,
on the 5th of November, 1832, and has spent his whole life in Crawford County.
He is a son of William and Elizabeth (Kitchell) Wilson; the former was born in
Virginia February 11, 1790, and died in March, 1850; he came to Illinois in
1816, when the county was a comparative wilderness, and settled near Palestine,
where he spent his life, mostly in farming; was for four years (1845 to 1849)
Receiver of the Land Office at Palestine; his wife belonged to the Kitchell
family, long prominent in the county, and was born in New Jersey in 1799. Their
children were Eliza A., Robert C., John W., Jeretta, James, Hannah, William C.
(subject), Martha and Asa W.; three died in infancy. Mr. Wilson, the subject,
was brought up on the farm, and in those days farming was not the science that
it is now; ox teams were then common, and the old wooden mold -board plow. When
he began work for himself, he had 80 acres of land, given him by his father. He
now owns about 560 acres near Robinson, well improved. His education was
received in the common schools of the neighborhood, which he was unable to
attend except during the winter season. When twenty years of age, Mr. Wilson was
appointed Deputy Clerk, and served for one year; he was elected County Treasurer
in 1854, for two years, and in 1856 postmaster at Palestine, which he held some
time. He then engaged in the milling business, but retired from it in 1861; and
the same year was elected County Clerk, a position he held for sixteen
consecutive years; in 1879, was elected State Senator from the Forty-fifth
District composed of the counties of Crawford, Clark and Jasper, and during the
sessions served on the committees of Appropriation, Printing, Education, etc.,
etc., working actively during his term. He is a member of the Presbyterian
Church and of the Masonic fraternity. He is a Democrat in politics and cast his
first vote for James Buchanan for President. Mr. Wilson was married December 4,
1855, to Miss Sue F. Waldrop, a daughter of Francis and Amelia (Redmon)
Waldrop-he a native of North Carolina, and she of Ohio. He died March 11, 1848,
and she died March 22, 1874. Mrs. Wilson is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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