BIO:  George W. WILSON, Menallen Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 482

GEORGE W. WILSON, nurseryman, P. O. Flora Dale, was born April 6, 1830, and is a 
son of William B. and Mary (Wierman) Wilson.  He enlisted in the Union Army in 
1861; was appointed first lieutenant of Company G, One Hundredth and Thirty-
eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served with the company 
and regiment until the summer of 1864, when he was detached from his regiment 
and given command of the Second Brigade, Third Division of Sharpshooters of the 
Sixth Army Corps, serving until January 7, 1865, when he was discharged on 
account of physical disability.  In September, 1853, he married Margaret Porter, 
of Gettysburg, a daughter of John Porter, of Martinsburg, Va.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Wilson have had five children:  William B., who married Ollie J. Van Lear, and 
died at Pittsburgh, Penn., February 7, 1886; B. F. Wilson, now a nurseryman at 
Bendersville; John E., a jeweler at Pittsburgh, and Charles S., who lives at 
home.  Mr. Wilson was formerly a Republican, but, being a strong temperance man, 
acts with the Prohibition party.