Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. 
Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
BAKER TOWNSHIP
PAGE 369

JOHN C. WILSON, farmer, is a native of Owen County, Ind., was born January
24, 1841, and is the second of the four children of Thomas and Orphy Wilson, natives
respectively of Kentucky and North Carolina, and of German and Irish extraction.
John C. labored on the home farm during summer, and attended subscription school 
during winter.  His father was one of the early settlers of Monroe County, who there
entered land, and afterward moved to Owen County, where he entered 300 acres near
Gosport, and where he died May 24,1883, aged eighty-six years.  He had also entered
about 1,000 acres in Jasper County, Ill., which he bestowed among his children.  May,
1861, our subject married Catherine, daughter of Jefferson and Sarah Farr, a union
cememted by seven children, five of whom are living--Albert J., Frances (Mrs. Hodges),
Joseph P., Thomas O., and John Otto.  During the war, Mr. Wilson enlisted in Company
F, Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until July, 1865, when he return-
ed to his home farm and remained until October, 1879, when he removed to his present
abode.  Mrs. Wilson died Janaury, 1880, and on September 13 he married Mrs. Guy.
Mr. Wilson owns 365 acres of fruitful land, on which has been found a vein of gold, 
yielding $300 to the ton, becoming richer as descent is made.  His farm is well improved,
cultivated and valuable, bearing some of the largest poplar and tulip trees in the State,
one so large as to admit of a vehicle, horse and driver when hollowed out.  He and wife
are members of the Christian Church.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

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