Robert Wilson

As printed in 1882

ROBERT WILSON (deceased) was born in Rockbridge Co., Va., Nov. 10,,797, and came with his parents to Hopkinsville, Warren Co., Ohio, about the { yar A. D. 1808, when about 11 years of age. His parents being of limited fc eans, his boyhood was devoted to his own support and to obtaining such edition as the country schools of that day afforded. He taught the school at (opkinsville and was, for a number of years, Justice of the Peace of Hamilton township. He was Assessor, and, for a number of years, Treasurer, of the >unty, and represented it one term in the Legislature. In 1843, he removed om Hopkinsville to a farm, purchased about that time, in Union Township, barren Co., about three miles south of Lebanon, where he resided until his,3ath, Nov. 15, 1854. He was an intelligent and progressive farmer, and was. nong the foremost to introduce the improvements in machinery and methods l culture, which have lightened the farmer’s toil and given it better reward, ad, as a means to this end, was active in the organization of the Warren county Agricultural Society. From his early manhood to his death, he was a member of the Associate Reformed Church, at Hopkinsville, and by his life, 3mmended industry, education, morality and religion. On the 25th of August, D. 1825, he was married to Martha Smith, daughter of James and Nancy mith, pioneers of Hamilton Township. Mrs. Wilson died at Lebanon July 9, 1881, aged nearly 80 years. They had eight children, of whom the follow ig brief mention is made: Elizabeth H. Wilson, wife of Allison L. Scott, Esq., ho died January, 1859. Jeremiah M. Wilson, attorney at law; admitted to ie bar at Lebanon, Ohio, Gen. Durbin Ward being his tutor; located at Conersville, Ind., and practiced his profession and served as Judge of the Circuit burt for a number of years, and represented his district two terms in Congress, and since then has followed his profession at Washington, D. C., wl he now resides. William W. Wilson, attorney at law, Lebanon, Ohio; admi to the bar in August, 1854; served in the army as Captain of Company A,

As printed in The history of Warren County, Ohio .. (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.