Albert Wilson

As printed in 1910

ALBERT WILSON.

Among the citizens of Independence township. Nodaway county, Missouri, who have attained to a definite measure of success through the exercise of the talents of industry, sound judgment and stanch integrity, must be numbered the subject of this sketch, who owns a fine and attractive farm and who is numbered among the representative farmers of his community. Mr. Wilson is a native son of Missouri, having first seen the light of day in Worth county, on November 30, 1867. He is a son of W. A. and Harriet (Sharps) Wilson, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Iowa. When a young man, W. A. Wilson came to Nodaway county, Missouri, and purchased a large tract of land, but, through misfortune, he lost it, and subsequently went to the Black Hills, where he successfully carried on extensive mining operations. After remaining in the Black Hills for twenty-five years, he returned to Nodaway county and again bought the land he had formerly owned here, comprising a tract of eight hundred and ten acres. Of this, he has since given to each of his five sons one hundred and twenty acres. He and his wife became the parents of eight children, of whom seven are living. In politics he was aligned with the Democratic party and he and his wife were members of the Christian church. The subject's paternal grandparents were Jerry and Elizabeth (Lockett) Wilson. The latter was born in Bortetourt county, Virginia, on March 2, 1813, and her death occurred at Sheridan, this county, on March 13, 1905, at the age of ninety-two years, eight months and ten days. She was a consistent member of the

Methodist Episcopal church from girlhood. Mr. Wilson died at Sidney, Iowa, about 1882.

Albert Wilson spent his boyhood days under the parental roof and received the advantage of a good common school education. He was brought to Nodaway county in boyhood and has remained a resident of this county since. He is now the owner of two hundred and forty acres of fine land in Independence township, where he carries on general farming operations with pronounced success. He also gives considerable attention to the breeding and raising of livestock, giving special attention to Hereford cattle and Poland China hogs. Practical and progressive in his methods, he keeps in touch with advanced ideas relating to husbandry and stock raising and has gained an enviable reputation among the leading agriculturists of the county. He owns an attractive home, the surroundings of which present a pleasing aspect.

In politics, Mr. Wilson has always supported the Democratic party, while his religious membership is with the Christian church, to which his wife also belongs.

On May 14, 1902, Mr. Wilson married Della Risser, a native of Colorado and a daughter of Jacob and Jane Ann (Lock) Risser, who are mentioned elsewhere in this work in the sketch of Sanford L. Wilson. To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have been born two children, Glennon and Retha, who are at home. In every avenue of life’s activities in which he has engaged, Mr. Wilson has performed his full part, having always been deeply interested in whatever tends to promote the prosperity of his township and county and to him as much as to any one man is the community indebted for the material development for which it has long been noted. He has also used his influence in behalf of all moral and benevolent movements. His career has been that of a devoted husband, kind father and upright citizen, in whom the community repose the utmost confidence.

As printed in Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.