Biography of 	WILSON, S. Jos., Orleans then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller January 1999

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S. JOS. WILSON, OPELOUSAS.-S. Jos. Wilson, vice president of the First
National Bank, Opelousas, and member of the enterprising mercantile 
firm of Clements & Wilson, is a young man, being only in his twenty-
fourth year.  Mr. Wilson's grandparents, on his father's side, were 
natives of Ireland.  His maternal grandparents were natives of England.  
His father was born in New Orleans, and was one of the founders of a 
wholesale house of that place.  His mother was a Miss Waldwyn, a great-
grand-daughter of Sir James Waldwyn, of the English navy.  She now 
resides in Opelousas.  The subject's father died in 1880.

S. Jos. Wilson was reared and educated in New Orleans.  At an early age
he entered mercantile pursuits as a clerk.  He rose quickly in the
esteem of his employers, and soon held the highest position of trust in
the establishment.  He here made himself familiar with all the
departments of mercantile business; and when he embarked in trade at
this place, he was fully equipped in mature experience; and, indeed, to
this is due the almost phenomenal success which has attended his
undertakings.  The firm of which he is a member is one of the first of
Opelousas.  They do a large advancing business, and handle a vast 
amount of cotton and other plantation products.

Mr. Wilson is abreast of the times, and is a thoroughly progressive,
modern business man.  He married a Miss Lastrapes, of St. Landry 
parish.  Both he and his wife are members of the Catholic church.


Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 92.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company. Date: 28 Oct 1998