Biographical Sketch of Rev. John H. Wilson, Greene County, Missouri,
Campbell Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman was born in Boston, Mass., February 27, 1810.  His 
parents were natives of that city, and died when he was a child.  He
was educated at Andover, Mass., and at Williams College in 1836.  
After graduating he commenced teaching, which occupation he followed
in New York until 1842.  He was then ordained for the ministry in the
Onondaga, N.Y., Presbytery.  He removed from New York to Cincinnati 
in 1842, and became professor of languages in Farmer's college, for a
period of fifteen years.  Then he was president of Central college,
Ohio, and then about the year 1860, he was sent as a missionary to
Reno county, Kansas, where he lived two years, and then went to Park
college, where he was a professor over two years.  He then came to
Oakland farm, Campbell township, Greene county, Mo., where he still
resides.  Mr. Wilson was married April 5, 1841 to Clarissa, oldest 
daughter of Jonathan Dickinson, of Deerfield, Mass.  She was born
September 4, 1815.  Their union has been blest with five sons and 
four daughters, four of the sons being dead.  Mr. Wilson is a member
of the Ozark Presbytery, and occasionally preaches, though over
seventy-three years of age.

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