Tipton-Montgomery County IN Archives Biographies.....Wilson, Woodroe W. 1842 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   W. W. WILSON, dealer in groceries at the Banta corner, member of the firm of
Wilson & Harvey, is a native of Montgomery County, where he was born September
16, 1845. His father, John W. Wilson, removed to Tipton County in 1859, and
located at Normanda, where he resided until 1868, and engaged in wagon-making.
At the end of that time, he removed to Tipton, where he lived until 1877, when
he again removed to Clinton County, where he died April 7 of that year, leaving
a widow and nine children, namely, Mrs. Lydia A. Evans, Woodroe W., C. M.,
Milton W., John P., Mrs. Martha E. Ward, James M., Mrs. Philena Lamb, Joseph S.,
all, of whom reside in Kansas, except our subject and Mrs. Martha E. Ward. His
mother, Mrs. Margaret Wilson, died in Labette County, Kan., September 13, 1881.
In January, 1864, Woodroe W. enlisted in the United States Army, in Company B,
Seventy-fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was assigned to the
Second Brigade, Third Division and Fourteenth Army Corps. He was with Sherman
during the whole of his memorable campaign to the sea, and was in all the
principal battles of that time. He was discharged in July, 1865. After his
discharge, he returned home, and in 1867 engaged in the saw mill and lumber
business until 1872, in Tipton. He then disposed of his interest in that
business and engaged in wagon-making, a trade that he had learned under his
father. This he continued until September, 1882, when he again sold out and
commenced his present vocation. The firm of which he is a member carry about
$2,000 stock, and are doing a good business. Mr. Wilson was married, May 20,
1872, to Miss Orpha Long, of Tipton, daughter of John Long, County Recorder.
They have four children-John M., Luella, Woodroe and Nancy M. Mr. Wilson is the
owner of a very nice residence in Tipton, and is politically a Republican.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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