BIO: Ward O. WILSON, M. D., Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 435 & 436.
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  WARD O. WILSON, M. D., whose office is located at No. 210 North Second St., 
Clearfield, Pa., is one of the successful and leading physicians of this 
borough, and has been a life long resident of Clearfield County.  He was born 
December 4, 1875, in the village of Shawsville, Clearfield County, Pa., and is 
a son of Mark L. and Agnes (Shirey) Wilson, and comes of one of the pioneer 
families of the county.  The Wilson family originally came to America from 
Scotland, and first settled in York County, Pa., but subsequently located in 
Clearfield County.  John L. Wilson, grandfather of our subject, was a brother 
of Samuel Wilson, who was one of the first men to serve as Justice of the Peace 
in Bradford township.  Mark L. Wilson, father of our subject, was a life long 
resident of Clearfield County and was for many years identified with the lumber 
industry of the county.  He was for some time associated with A. B. Shaw, and 
also Weaver and Betts, who were all well known lumbermen of this section of 
Pennsylvania, and died January 13, 1884, when a comparatively young man.  Of 
this union with Agnes Shirey, who is a daughter of George Shirey of Gillingham, 
Pa., were born two sons, Walter V., who died aged two years; and Ward O., the 
subject of this record.  In 1906 Mrs. Wilson formed a second union with Simeon 
Cross, and they reside on Nichol Street at Clearfield, Pa.
  Dr. Ward O. Wilson spent the first ten years of his life on the farm, and 
then entered the employ of Edward Shaw, who conducted a general store at 
Shawsville, Pa.  He continued in the employ of Mr. Shaw three years, and during 
the winter of two years of that time, he attended the local schools of 
Shawsville, and later took a course at the Central State Normal at Lock Haven, 
Pa.  In 1894 Dr. Wilson began teaching and followed that profession five years, 
his schools being at Palestine, Graham township, the Black Oak school of Graham 
township, the Shawsville school, which he himself had attended, in Goshen 
township, the Center School in Lawrence township, and his fifth a graded school 
at Glenn Richey, Lawrence township, his last assignment.  In 1898 Dr. Wilson 
entered a medical college at Philadelphia, from which he graduated with the 
class of 1902, and since September 11, of that year, has been engaged in the 
practice of his profession at Clearfield.  He first located over the present 
Thatcher Drug Store, and in January, 1903, moved temporarily to No. 303 Reed 
Street, and subsequently bought and remodeled his present office and residence, 
which are located at No. 210 No. Second Street.  On October 29, 1903, Dr. 
Wilson was united in marriage with Lottie I. McCoskey, who is a daughter of A. 
E. McCoskey of Lock Haven, Pa.