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Robert Stacy Wilson

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Robert Stacy Wilson

Birth
Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
30 Dec 1882 (aged 70)
Van Buren County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Belfast, Allegany County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Robert S Wilson
1812-1882

Robert Stacy Wilson, son of Stephen Wilson 13489508 and Anna Cogswell 13489513. Born 16 Nov 1812 in Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, died 30 Dec 1882 in Van Buren Co. Michigan. He married Frances J. Goodwin and had three children. The marriage ended in divorce. He remarried Josephine Harpell,19 years his junior. daughter of Mathew Harpell and Ann Moore. She was born in New York City in 1831. Robert and Josephine married on 19 Jul 1866 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York,

Robert learned the printer's trade at Angelica, with his brother Samuel C. Afterwards read law and practiced his profession there until 1836, when he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan; there he was eleced a justice of the peace, probate judge, and served as a member of the Michigan State Senate for one term. He was delegate from that State to the Convention that nominated James K. Polk for President. In 1850 he removed to Chicago, where he practiced his profession for three years, when he was elected Judge of the Recorder's Court of the city, and held that office by re-election for ten years.
Rhamanthus M. Stocker, History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania--Centennial, R. T. Peck and Co. Philadelphia 1887, pg 280, 974.834 H2s.
Robert S Wilson
1812-1882

Robert Stacy Wilson, son of Stephen Wilson 13489508 and Anna Cogswell 13489513. Born 16 Nov 1812 in Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, died 30 Dec 1882 in Van Buren Co. Michigan. He married Frances J. Goodwin and had three children. The marriage ended in divorce. He remarried Josephine Harpell,19 years his junior. daughter of Mathew Harpell and Ann Moore. She was born in New York City in 1831. Robert and Josephine married on 19 Jul 1866 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York,

Robert learned the printer's trade at Angelica, with his brother Samuel C. Afterwards read law and practiced his profession there until 1836, when he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan; there he was eleced a justice of the peace, probate judge, and served as a member of the Michigan State Senate for one term. He was delegate from that State to the Convention that nominated James K. Polk for President. In 1850 he removed to Chicago, where he practiced his profession for three years, when he was elected Judge of the Recorder's Court of the city, and held that office by re-election for ten years.
Rhamanthus M. Stocker, History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania--Centennial, R. T. Peck and Co. Philadelphia 1887, pg 280, 974.834 H2s.


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