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Born 1834, Orange County
From The history of Nodaway county, Missouri, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., biographical sketches of its citizens (1882)
CALEB B. WILSON, miller and farmer, section 2, was born in Orange County, North Carolina, in January, 1834, and the same year came to Clay County, Missouri. His father moved to Andrew County, in 1842, and bought a farm, living upon it some eleven years, when he was killed by the kick of a horse. Caleb remained on the farm until 1874, when he came to this county and bought the Bridgewater mill, with other parties, and also purchased a farm. He has conducted them ever since that time. The mill was built by a Mr. Cock, in an early day, and perhaps was the first one in the in the county. Mr. Wilson commenced milling while a boy with a horsepower, and has the knowledge gained by long experience to make the best of flour, and has a reputation which reaches far and wide. He has a fine farm and a beautiful home, with abundance of fruit. He married Miss Susan O. Dobbs, of Indiana, in 1855. They have six children living: Martha Isabel, Sonora Agnes, Anna Lucy, Homer, Alveta Grace and Lena Pearl. Three sons are deceased: One, Roily, was killed by a horse when twelve years of age. Mr. W.'s mother lives in Nebraska, with her son William, and is seventy-eight years old. Ralph T. Wilson, his brother, was County Clerk of Andrew County, and died in 1866, leaving two children: Emelie Ettie, married Joseph P. Duncan, of Andrew County, and Robert B. The latter had an attack of spotted fever when he was four years old, which left him perfectly blind. He soon after lost his father and mother, and was left alone with his sister. In 1874, when he was sixteen years old, he went to the Blind Asylum at St. Louis, for six years, and to the Washington University for one year, and is now a well educated young man. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are members of the Baptist Church.
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