Mahoning County OhArchives News.....WILSON-MAURER 5Oth Anniversary 28 Apr 1909 April 30, 1909
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Mahoning Dispatch April 30, 1909
Robert M. and Catherine Elizabeth "Betsy" MAURER WILSON - 28 Apr 1909
CELEBRATED FIFTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
On Wednesday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Wilson celebrated their golden 
wedding anniversary at their home 1 ½ miles west of Canfield. 
Fifty years ago, April 28, 1859, Robert M. Wilson of Canfield and Miss 
Catherine E. Maurer of Youngstown township were united in marriage in Warren, 
O., by Rev. Everett, Calvin Ewing being groomsman and Miss Roxy Warner 
bridesmaid. Among those present in the bridal party were P.C. and Alex Maurer, 
brothers of the bride, William, Mary and Maggie Wilson, brother and sisters of 
the groom, and Miss Rose Squires, now Mrs. H. A. Manchester.
Mr. Manchester and his wife were the only guests present at the wedding 
anniversary who attended the wedding fifty years ago. The guests to the number 
of 50 with the exception of the family physician, Dr. D. Campbell, and wife, 
were composed only of near relatives among whom were the following accompanied 
by their wives: H. A. and R. A. Manchester, Hugh Stuart, Porter and Samuel 
McNeilly, James Park, Samuel Dickson, Henry Hartman and Albert Bradley; Mrs. 
W. Calhoun, Mrs. Wm. Pennell, Mrs. Nettie Maurer, Mrs. Martha Fowler and Mrs. 
Frank Fitch. 
After an elaborate 6 o’clock dinner H. A. Manchester presented to Mr. and Mrs. 
Wilson in behalf of their guests, a number of valuable presents, in a speech 
which Mr. Manchester alone knows how to make, and which contained some 
reminiscences of that bright sunshiny day of fifty years ago. 
Four children came to bless this union: W. C. Wilson and Mrs. C. H. Hine of 
Canfield, C. J. Wilson of Greenford and Mrs. G. D. Kimmel of North Jackson.
Robert Wilson was born in Canfield Feb. 25, 1834, of Scotch-Irish parents Jno. 
And Jane Wilson, who emigrated to this country in 1828, and with his father, 
his brother William and a sister, the mother of H. A. Manchester, who followed 
in 1832, James Stuart, who came in 1838, and Wm. Trimble who came in 1850, 
settled in Canfield township near the place to which was given and which still 
retains the name of Dublin.
In the early sixties, when the gold fever was at its height in California, Mr. 
Wilson with his brother-in-law, the late, P. C. Maurer, the late Col. Wm. 
Brown of New York, Geo. Wetzel, the Lanterman boys and others went by boat 
down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers to St. Louis, Mo., from where they 
went by prairie schooner and on horseback into the then wild west guided by 
that famous government scout, “old” Bridger, who guided them through a new 
country never before traveled by white men and over a trail since known 
as “Bridger’s cut-off.” 
Mr. Wilson has always been a farmer and stock dealer by occupation with the 
exception of about ten or twelve years during which time he was engaged in the 
meat trade. A life-long democrat, he was a candidate for office but once, in 
1869, when he was elected assessor of Austintown township, when that township 
contained but one precinct and was overwhelmingly republican. Notwithstanding 
this fact he was elected by a large majority and discharged the duties of the 
office well. 
Mrs. Wilson was born March 3, 1841, and is one of a family of nine children 
being the daughter of Jacob and Lena Maurer (nee Troxel) who were of German 
extraction with a tinge of Scotch-Irish on the side of the Troxels, and who 
came to Ohio from Pennsylvania about 1844. Like most Germans Mrs. Wilson is an 
economical and thrifty disposition and in a large measure to this disposition, 
and to the thrift and energy of the Scotch-Irish blood of Mr. Wilson they have 
accumulated a competency for their declining years, being possessed of a well 
located farm, a modern home with up-to-date conveniences and a modest but 
sufficient income.
May they enjoy in full the fruits of their labors and live to celebrate many 
more as pleasant anniversaries as was celebrated Wednesday afternoon.


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