Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Wilson, Edward L 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

EDWARD L. WILSON, secretary and general manager of the Manhattan creamery, 
J.J. and the owner of a valuable farm on section 17, Manhattan Township, was 
born in Worth, Cook County, Ill., November 11, 1870, and is a son of Edward 
and Magdaline (Lendrum) Wilson, natives of the north of Ireland. He was one of 
six children, all of whom are dead except himself and his brother, Robert J., 
of Cook County. His father emigrated from Ireland in 1853 and settled in Cook 
County, Ill., where he has since conducted farm pursuits upon an extensive 
scale, and is now the owner of three hundred acres, on which he engages 
principally in general farming. Since the organization of the Republican party 
he has been a believer in its principles. He has served as highway 
commissioner and school director for several years, and is a man of high 
standing in his neighborhood. Sixty-three years of activity have not lessened 
his energy nor weakened his judgment, for he is still an industrious, 
judicious farmer. In 1890 the subject of this sketch graduated from the 
commercial department of Bryant & Stratton's Business College, Chicago. He 
remained with his father on the home farm until 1895, and then moved to his 
present farm near Manhattan, which he had purchased in 1889 from W. D. B. 
Linn, and which is one of the old homesteads of the county. Here he has since 
conducted a general farming and dairy business. During the year of his removal 
to this farm he assisted in the organization of the Manhattan creamery, in 
which he is, with one exception, the largest stockholder. Since coming to his 
present farm he has made many improvements, thereby increasing the value of 
the place. Like his father, he gives his support to the men and measures 
advocated by the Republican party. In 1896 he married Lizzie M., daughter of 
Edward P. Bishop, of Cook County. He is identified with the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, to which his wife also belongs. Fraternally he is connected 
with the Knights of the Globe at Manhattan, and for some time has served as 
president of the order.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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