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Born 1857, Buchanan County
From The Daily news' history of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo. From the time of the Platte purchase to the end of the year 1898. Preceded by a short history of Missouri. Supplemented by biographical s (1898)
JAMES M. WILSON, attorney, was born Dec. 29, 1857, in Buchanan County, Mo., near DeKalb. He is the son of Joseph Wilson, who came to the county in the fall of 1837 and located on a farm near DeKalb, where he still resides, at the age of seventy-seven years. The old pre-emption house on the farm, built in 1837, still of his profession. INIr. Wilson is a Republican and in 1888 was nominated by his party for city attorney, but was defeated by a small majority; he was afterwards, in the same year, nominated for county prosecuting attorney, but declined to make the race. He is now chairman of the Republican county central committee. He is a mem-
As printed in The Daily news' history of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo. From the time of the Platte purchase to the end of the year 1898. Preceded by a short history of Missouri. Supplemented by biographical s (1898). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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