Carroll-Cass-White County IN Archives Biographies.....Wilson, Milton 1875 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

MILTON WILSON.

   With ambitions beyond those of the average man at the beginning of his
career, Milton Wilson, whose history is here recorded, made up his mind to
accomplish something more than a mere existence on a farm, the result of which
is his splendid stock farm and his one hundred and six acres of fine farm land,
located at Camden, Indiana.

   Milton Wilson, farmer and stockman, Camden, Carroll county, was born on
January 12, 1875, on a farm near Georgetown, in Cass county, Indiana, and is a
son of George and Eleanor (Fisher) Wilson. He was educated at the public schools
and remained at home until he was married, after which he followed farming on a
rented place in White county, which he later bought, and afterward sold out,
coming to Jackson township, this county, in 1906, where he has since lived, and
where he is a breeder of fine stock of various kinds, and of which he sells a
large number each year. Politically, Mr. Wilson believes in the policies of the
Republican party, and in religion, he belongs to the Baptist church.

   George Wilson, father-of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Cass
county, Indiana. His wife, Eleanor (Fisher) Wilson, was born in Cass county,
Indiana, and was a daughter of John Fisher. They lived for a time on a rented
place, which they later bought, to which he added eighty acres more, living
there until Milton was fourteen years old, when they moved to a farm of four
hundred and thirty-six acres, located south of Monticello, White county,
Indiana. The children born to this union were Milton and Joseph, the latter of
whom was united in marriage with Bertha Cullum, by whom he had three children,
Homer, Mildred and Harold.

   John Fisher, the paternal grandfather, was of Dutch lineage, his ancestors
coming from Pennsylvania.

   Milton Wilson was united in marriage on October 19, 1898, with Alice
Hornbeck, daughter of Samuel and Mary Hornbeck. She was born on August 14, 1875,
in White county, Indiana, where she received a public school education. To Mr.
and Mrs. Wilson have been born two children, Harry, who is in his second year at
high school, and assists his father on the farm, and Mabel, who is in the fifth
grade at school.

   Samuel Hornbeck, father of Mrs. Milton Wilson, was born in Carroll county,
and his wife, Mary, was born in White county, where they settled. They are both
now deceased. They were the parents of six "children, five of whom are living in
1915: Bert, who lives at Monticello; Charles M., of White county; Mrs. Alice
Wilson; Mrs. Maude Redding, who lives at Camden, Indiana; Edith, deceased, and
Levilla, who became the wife of Charles Wolf, and lives in Monroe township, this
county.

   Mr. Wilson is essentially a man of affairs in his community, where he has won
and retains the confidence and respect of all who have the pleasure of knowing
him.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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