BIO: Samuel WILSON, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 343-344.
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  SAMUEL WILSON, assistant cashier in the Orbisonia Bank, Huntingdon 
county, Pa., was born November 12, 1862, in Oakland Mills, Fayette 
township, Juniata county, son of James Banks and Catharine (Adams) 
Wilson. His great-grandfather, Robert Wilson, came from Chester county, 
Pa., with his wife, and settled in Fayette township, Juniata county, on 
a farm which he cultivated all his life. He died in Fayette township. 
Hugh Wilson, son of Robert Wilson, was born in Fayette township, and 
died at McAllistersville, Juniata county, in 1847, aged about fifty 
years. He was reared on a farm, received a fair education, and when 
twenty years old embarked in the mercantile business at 
McAllistersville, staying there until his death. He married Martha 
Banks, a native of Juniata county. Their children are: Lucien; 
Catharine, wife of Edmund S. Doty, of Mifflintown, Pa; James Banks; and 
Hugh Latimer, a farmer in Juniata county.
  James Banks Wilson was born in McAllistersville, Pa., December 25, 
1826. He entered his father's store at the age of fourteen. In 1855, he 
and his brother Lucien bought a store, a mill, and a farm property at 
Oakland Mills, and continued in partnership until 1888, when they sold 
out to Samuel and James Wilson. Mr. J. B. Wilson was, in 1889, elected 
vice-president of the First National Bank at Mifflintown. In 1892, he 
was elected president, and still holds that office, making his home at 
Oakland Mills. In 1856 he was married to Catharine, daughter of Jacob 
and Margaret (McMeen) Adams. Their children are: Martha Banks, 
deceased; Mary Adams; Edmund Doty; Samuel and James, twins; Margaret 
McMeen; William, who died in infancy; and Catharine. Mr. Wilson is a 
Presbyterian. He is a staunch Republican, and has served as county 
commissioner for two terms.
  Samuel Wilson attended public schools until he was nineteen; during 
leisure time and vacation, he was clerk in his father's store or worked 
on the farm. In 1882 he began a business course at the Iron City 
College, Pittsburg, Pa., graduating the following spring. He served in 
his father's store at Oakland Mills as clerk, until the spring of 1888, 
when he and his twin brother, James, bought the store from their father 
and their uncle and conducted it until the spring of 1890. They the 
disposed of it to A. J. Sausman. Samuel Wilson, soon after, entered the 
First National Bank, at Mifflintown, of which his father was president, 
and remained two years. In May, 1892, he became assistant cashier of 
the Orbisonia Bank, and still holds that position. He is a Republican.