Genesee-Saginaw County MI Archives Biographies.....Wilson, William R. 1860 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

WILLIAM R. WILSON. The gentleman whose name appears above is the efficient
Postmaster who presides over the incoming and outgoing mails of Mt. Morris. He
is a native of this State, having been born in Saginaw October 2, 1860. He is a
son of Richard Wilson, an Englishman by birth and rearing. When twenty-three
years of age our subject's father came to America and settled in Saginaw, this
State. He was drowned in the Saginaw River in 1862, a tug running into the skiff
in which he and his brother were crossing the river.

  Our subject's mother was in her maiden days a Miss Anna Graham, like her
husband a native of England. They were married in Saginaw and became the parents
of two children. Of these our subject alone survives. His mother still lives and
makes her home in Mt. Morris. Only a year and a year and a half old when bereft
of his father, Mr. Wilson could scarcely realize the calamity that had befallen
him. His mother later married Joseph Barber, who brought his wife and little
stepson to Mt. Morris when the latter was but three years old. He here received
his education and at the age of sixteen went to live with Dr. Bardwell and
remained with him until he was twenty-one. Under this able preceptorship he
learned the drug business and then went to work for Mr. H. D. Mann and remained
with him as clerk in his general store for seven years. In 1889 our subject was
appointed Postmaster of the village, receiving his notification of appointment
in the month of May.

  Mr. Wilson has in connection with the postoffice a hardware business, which
proves to be very remunerative. July 8, 1882, our subject assumed the
responsibility and duties of married life, taking as his partner Miss Nellie
Patterson, daughter of George L. Patterson of Clio. She was born in Canada and
came to Michigan when young. Our subject and his wife are the parents of three
daughters, Zola, Grace and Bernice.

  Mr. Wilson is a Republican in his political sentiments and is one of the
strongholds of his party in this vicinity. He now fills the office of Village
Treasurer. Socially he is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and Iron Hall
of Mt. Morris.



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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892

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