"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
PAGE 244
MICHAEL M. WILSON was born in Guilford County, N.C., on July 6, 1838, and
was twenty years old when he came to Morgan County. His life has been spent
upon the farm, and his learning, consisting of a fair English education, was
not acquired at school. He was married, February 10, 1861, at Mooresville,
to Margaret, daughter of Hiram Staley, and has had born to him ten
children--William M., John B., Mary C., Peter F., Charley O. (deceased),
Michael M., Cora (deceased), Thomas M. (deceased), Robert R. and India P.
His parents, Louis and Mary (Coble) Wilson, were natives of North Carolina;
came to Indiana in 1865, and have since resided in Morgan County, and at
this writing are both octogenarians. They had five children, four sons and
one daughter; the eldest being the subject of this sketch. Since July,
1883, M. M. Wilson, in addition to his farming and stock growing, has been
engaged in the buying and shipping of grain at Mooresville. He is well
fixed financially, every dollar of which has been acquired by his own
industry. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church; holds official
positions in both Masonic and Odd Fellows societies, and in politics is a
Democrat.
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