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Born 1807
From The History of Clark County Ohio, (1881)
ROBERT WILSON, retired woolen manufacturer, Springfield, Ohio. Mr. Wilson was born in Selkirkshire, Scotland, near the home of Walter Scott, June 26, 1807; he came to Americh in 1819; lived in New York State until 1830, when he moved to Pennsylvania, where he resided two years, and thence to Knox Co., Ohio, where, in 1843, he erected a woolen-factory, which he ran until 1863, when he sold out and retired from active business, and in 18'/8 removed to Springfield, Ohio, and is comfortably located at No. — South Limestone street.
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He was married, in 1837, to Adeline Whitney, who was born in New York Jan. 19, 1814; they have but two children—Aurilla U. and Charles; Aurilla was married, Sept. 2, 1880,to James H. Perrin, of the firm of Perrin & Shanks, house-builders of this city; Charles is located at South Charleston, Clark Co., Ohio, where he is engaged in commercial pursuits. i
As printed in The History of Clark County Ohio, (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: James L. Torbert (b. 1796) Amos Barr
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