Traer Star Clipper, Friday, February 14th, 1958 – page 1
Miss Flora Wilson, of Washington, D. C., the only daughter and the only living child of Traer's James (Tama Jim) Wilson, who was secretary of agriculture in the cabinets of three Presidents - William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft - the longest presidential cabinet service in the nation's history, was found dead in her apartment Monday morning in a Washington hotel, where she had lived alone. Death was caused by old age complications. Prof and Mrs. L. L. Leninger, of Baltimore, Maryland were notified. Mrs. Leninger is the former Janet Wilson, daughter or Mrs. Jasper Wilson of Traer. The body, unaccompanied, was received at Tama late yesterday afternoon. It is now at the Slates Funeral Home. No services are planned here except a brief graveside service at 2 o'clock this Friday afternoon, to be conducted by the Rev. Wesley Jones, pastor of the United Presbyterian church. Interment will be on the Wilson family lot.
Miss Wilson would have been 89 had she lived until her next birthdate in May. She was born on the Wilson homestead, west of Traer. Her mother, the former Esther Wilbur, died when Flora was a small child. She was a graduate of the Traer high school class of 1887, the second to be graduated from the local school. She attended Coe college at Cedar Rapids, of which her father was a trustee for a time. When "Tama Jim" went to Ames as a professor or agriculture at Iowa State college, Flora accompanied him and was his homemaker. During his service at the college, she worked in the college library under Fred Lazelle, who later became editor of the Cedar Rapids Republican, and a teacher on the faculty of the State University school of journalism in Iowa City.
In 1896, she accompanied Tama Jim to Washington. During his 16 years in Washington as a cabinet member, Flora was her father's hostess for all social affairs When her father resigned in 1916 with the incoming administration of Woodrow Wilson, he returned to spend his last days in Traer with his sister, Flora, and other home folks, until his death. The daughter Flora remained in Washington, a resident of the Wardman Park Hotel, where she and her father lived during his cabinet service.
Miss Wilson was a concert singer for a few years. She had studied voice in Paris under a famous teacher and traveled extensively in Europe. In later years she was employed in the Congressional Library and did considerable writing. She once collaborated with a well-known author in writing a book about her father. She was never married.
Miss Flora Wilson, of Washington, D. C., the only daughter and the only living child of Traer's James (Tama Jim) Wilson, who was secretary of agriculture in the cabinets of three Presidents - William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft - the longest presidential cabinet service in the nation's history, was found dead in her apartment Monday morning in a Washington hotel, where she had lived alone. Death was caused by old age complications. Prof and Mrs. L. L. Leninger, of Baltimore, Maryland were notified. Mrs. Leninger is the former Janet Wilson, daughter or Mrs. Jasper Wilson of Traer. The body, unaccompanied, was received at Tama late yesterday afternoon. It is now at the Slates Funeral Home. No services are planned here except a brief graveside service at 2 o'clock this Friday afternoon, to be conducted by the Rev. Wesley Jones, pastor of the United Presbyterian church. Interment will be on the Wilson family lot.
Miss Wilson would have been 89 had she lived until her next birthdate in May. She was born on the Wilson homestead, west of Traer. Her mother, the former Esther Wilbur, died when Flora was a small child. She was a graduate of the Traer high school class of 1887, the second to be graduated from the local school. She attended Coe college at Cedar Rapids, of which her father was a trustee for a time. When "Tama Jim" went to Ames as a professor or agriculture at Iowa State college, Flora accompanied him and was his homemaker. During his service at the college, she worked in the college library under Fred Lazelle, who later became editor of the Cedar Rapids Republican, and a teacher on the faculty of the State University school of journalism in Iowa City.
In 1896, she accompanied Tama Jim to Washington. During his 16 years in Washington as a cabinet member, Flora was her father's hostess for all social affairs When her father resigned in 1916 with the incoming administration of Woodrow Wilson, he returned to spend his last days in Traer with his sister, Flora, and other home folks, until his death. The daughter Flora remained in Washington, a resident of the Wardman Park Hotel, where she and her father lived during his cabinet service.
Miss Wilson was a concert singer for a few years. She had studied voice in Paris under a famous teacher and traveled extensively in Europe. In later years she was employed in the Congressional Library and did considerable writing. She once collaborated with a well-known author in writing a book about her father. She was never married.
Traer Star Clipper, Friday, February 14th, 1958 – page 1
Miss Flora Wilson, of Washington, D. C., the only daughter and the only living child of Traer's James (Tama Jim) Wilson, who was secretary of agriculture in the cabinets of three Presidents - William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft - the longest presidential cabinet service in the nation's history, was found dead in her apartment Monday morning in a Washington hotel, where she had lived alone. Death was caused by old age complications. Prof and Mrs. L. L. Leninger, of Baltimore, Maryland were notified. Mrs. Leninger is the former Janet Wilson, daughter or Mrs. Jasper Wilson of Traer. The body, unaccompanied, was received at Tama late yesterday afternoon. It is now at the Slates Funeral Home. No services are planned here except a brief graveside service at 2 o'clock this Friday afternoon, to be conducted by the Rev. Wesley Jones, pastor of the United Presbyterian church. Interment will be on the Wilson family lot.
Miss Wilson would have been 89 had she lived until her next birthdate in May. She was born on the Wilson homestead, west of Traer. Her mother, the former Esther Wilbur, died when Flora was a small child. She was a graduate of the Traer high school class of 1887, the second to be graduated from the local school. She attended Coe college at Cedar Rapids, of which her father was a trustee for a time. When "Tama Jim" went to Ames as a professor or agriculture at Iowa State college, Flora accompanied him and was his homemaker. During his service at the college, she worked in the college library under Fred Lazelle, who later became editor of the Cedar Rapids Republican, and a teacher on the faculty of the State University school of journalism in Iowa City.
In 1896, she accompanied Tama Jim to Washington. During his 16 years in Washington as a cabinet member, Flora was her father's hostess for all social affairs When her father resigned in 1916 with the incoming administration of Woodrow Wilson, he returned to spend his last days in Traer with his sister, Flora, and other home folks, until his death. The daughter Flora remained in Washington, a resident of the Wardman Park Hotel, where she and her father lived during his cabinet service.
Miss Wilson was a concert singer for a few years. She had studied voice in Paris under a famous teacher and traveled extensively in Europe. In later years she was employed in the Congressional Library and did considerable writing. She once collaborated with a well-known author in writing a book about her father. She was never married.
Miss Flora Wilson, of Washington, D. C., the only daughter and the only living child of Traer's James (Tama Jim) Wilson, who was secretary of agriculture in the cabinets of three Presidents - William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft - the longest presidential cabinet service in the nation's history, was found dead in her apartment Monday morning in a Washington hotel, where she had lived alone. Death was caused by old age complications. Prof and Mrs. L. L. Leninger, of Baltimore, Maryland were notified. Mrs. Leninger is the former Janet Wilson, daughter or Mrs. Jasper Wilson of Traer. The body, unaccompanied, was received at Tama late yesterday afternoon. It is now at the Slates Funeral Home. No services are planned here except a brief graveside service at 2 o'clock this Friday afternoon, to be conducted by the Rev. Wesley Jones, pastor of the United Presbyterian church. Interment will be on the Wilson family lot.
Miss Wilson would have been 89 had she lived until her next birthdate in May. She was born on the Wilson homestead, west of Traer. Her mother, the former Esther Wilbur, died when Flora was a small child. She was a graduate of the Traer high school class of 1887, the second to be graduated from the local school. She attended Coe college at Cedar Rapids, of which her father was a trustee for a time. When "Tama Jim" went to Ames as a professor or agriculture at Iowa State college, Flora accompanied him and was his homemaker. During his service at the college, she worked in the college library under Fred Lazelle, who later became editor of the Cedar Rapids Republican, and a teacher on the faculty of the State University school of journalism in Iowa City.
In 1896, she accompanied Tama Jim to Washington. During his 16 years in Washington as a cabinet member, Flora was her father's hostess for all social affairs When her father resigned in 1916 with the incoming administration of Woodrow Wilson, he returned to spend his last days in Traer with his sister, Flora, and other home folks, until his death. The daughter Flora remained in Washington, a resident of the Wardman Park Hotel, where she and her father lived during his cabinet service.
Miss Wilson was a concert singer for a few years. She had studied voice in Paris under a famous teacher and traveled extensively in Europe. In later years she was employed in the Congressional Library and did considerable writing. She once collaborated with a well-known author in writing a book about her father. She was never married.
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