BIO:  William 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, Lower Chanceford Township, Pg 127

WILLIAM WILSON, son of James and Mary (Bunting) Wilson, was born January 22, 
1824, in the township where he now resides.  His father was a native of Lancaster 
County and his mother of Chester County.  His father was drowned on the 17th of 
March, 1836.  After Mr. Wilson grew to manhood he was a pilot on the Susquehanna 
River for a period of thirty years.  For a number of years he was proprietor of 
the hotel at McCall’s Ferry.  In 1854 he was married to Mary E. Ayers, of Lower 
Chanceford.  They have six sons and daughters, viz.:  William T., Hannah M., 
James M., Clarkson F., Sarah E. and Jo Ellen.  Mr. Wilson took the census of 
Lower Chanceford for the year 1860, has been inspector of elections, township 
assessor and road supervisor, and is the present assessor of his township.  James 
M. Wilson, his son, was born in 1861 at McCall’s Ferry, and married Sarah Stokes 
of the same township.  They have one child, John.