BIO:  John WILSON, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 83

JOHN WILSON, deceased, was born in 1807 and died in 1860.  He was brought up 
about Wrightsville and Columbia, and educated at Wrightsville.  He was railroad 
contractor in Virginia at the time of his marriage, in 1839, at York, to Sarah 
Hiestand, daughter of Abraham Hiestand, of York County, and had born to him 
twelve children, one of whom died in infancy, and two after arriving at age.  
The living are Mary, John, Stephen, Webster, Frank, Thomas, Tempest, Emma and 
Sarah.  In 1844 he removed to Hellam, where he spent the remainder of his life, 
dying at the age of fifty-three years.  Mr. Wilson was a prosperous farmer, and 
at his death left his family well provided for.  His widow is descended from the 
pioneer families of York County, and aunt of Gen. A. Hiestand Glatz.  Mrs. 
Wilson herself is a woman of fine accomplishments, rare merits and womanly 
excellence.