Biographical Sketch of John H. Wilson, Johnson County, Missouri,
Warrensburg Township

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.

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John H. Wilson, merchant of Warrensburg, Missouri, was born in 1859 in
Muskingum county, Ohio, the son of Alexander and Sarah (McCully) Wilson.
Alexander Wilson was born in Ohio.  He came to Missouri in 1868 and lo-
cated in Warrensburg, where he put in operation a foundry on the pres-
ent site of the electric light plant.  The foundry was devoted to
structural iron work, making cultivators, field rollers, and other like
machinery.  Alexander Wilson operated this foundry until 1873.  He had
retired from business four years prior to his death, in 1877.  Sarah
(McCully) Wilson was also a native of Ohio.  Her death occurred in 
Warrensburg in 1894.  Interment for both father and mother was made in
the cemetery at Warrensburg.  John H. Wilson is one of four children
born to Alexander and Sarah (McCully) Wilson, as follows: Mrs. L. E.
Coleman, Warrensburg; Mrs. Margaret Fisher, Marshall, Mo.; Mary C., who
died about 1887 in Jefferson City, Mo.; and John H., the subject of 
this review.  John H. Wilson received his early education in the city
schools of Warrensburg, Missouri.  He later attended the Warrensburg
State Normal School for two years, in 1872 and 1873.  After leaving
school Mr. Wilson was employed in the clothing business with Frank and
Loebenstein, clothiers, in the store located on South Pine street.  He
was in their employ ten years, when he went into partnership with Mr.
Loebenstein, which partnership lasted three years until Mr. Wilson
entered the business for himself on North Holden street.  He continued
in the clothing business at that location until 1906, when he went to
Idaho, entering the clothing business in Lewiston, where he remained 
two years.  From Lewiston, Idaho Mr. Wilson went to Muskogee, Oklahoma,
and was there engaged in the mercantile business for seven years.  He
then returned to Warrensburg and purchased the Buente Mercantile Comp-
any's grocery store, which he still owns and conducts.  In 1900, John 
H. Wilson was elected mayor of Warrensburg and he served in that capa-
city two years.  During his incumbency the first brick paving in the 
city was put in on Pine street and Holden street.  This paving has
served as the nucleus for further paving, which has proceeded steadily.
Mr. Wilson was a member of the school board at the time the Warrensburg
High School was erected.  He is now one of Warrensburg's most active
and prominent business men.  On September 1, 1886, John H. Wilson and
Elma Campbell were united in marriage.  Elma (Campbell) Wilson was
formerly of St. Louis, Missouri.  To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have been born
four children: Estaline, a graduate of the Warrensburg High School, the
Warrensburg State Normal School, the State University of Missouri, and
Columbia University of New York City, who is now specializing in super-
visor's work and is engaged in teaching at Columbia University, New 
York City, a children's entertainer, who is now engaged in community
chautauqua work, having made this work her specialty; Natalie, a gradu-
ate of the Warrensburg High School, the Warrensburg State Normal School,
and the Sargent School of Physical Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and now has charge of the physical education of girls in the Girls'
Seminary and at the time of this writing is in charge of the military
training camp for women at Camp Waupertown, Arkansas; and John, Jr., 
now lieutenant in the Philippine Islands, who graduated in June, 1916,
from St. John's Military Academy at Delafield, Wisconsin, and was
immediately commissioned third lieutenant, and in July, 1916 went to 
the Philippine Islands, where he attended school for a short time, 
learning the Spanish language, and is at present at Nato Barracks on
the Island of Mindanao in charge of a company of native soldiers.  Mr.
and Mrs. Wilson have reared and educated one of the finest families in
the state of Missouri.  The Wilson home is a beautiful suburban home on
Hurricane Hill, the highest point in the city of Warrensburg.

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