d. cert 17410
Missouri Death Certificate
Dr. James A. Wilson, physician and surgeon, was born in Virginia in 1845, and is the son of Dr. Joseph and Rachel L. (Bell) Wilson, also natives of Virginia, where they spent their entire lives. The father was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, Penn., and made the medical profession his life-long occupation. He was for some time physician and surgeon of the insane asylum of his State, and died at the age of seventy-three, full of professional honors. The mother died in 1853.
Our subject was reared at home, and his early school life was spent at the common schools of his county. He took two courses at the Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va., and read medicine one year with his father. In 1866-67 he attended the medical department of the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville, Va., from which institution he graduated in 1867. A year later he graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York, and immediately commenced to practice his profession in Augusta County, Va., where for a number of years he was recognized as one of the leading physicians.
In 1878 he came to Schuyler County, and located at Green Top, where he has built up an extensive and lucrative practice, and ranks among the foremost in his profession in the county. He also superintends his farm of over 500 acres. In December, 1864, he enlisted in McClannahan's battery, Confederate Army, and served six months during the Virginia campaign. The next six months he had charge of a signal line from Staunton to Huttonsville, Va., and then for three months was at Staunton in the topographical department, aiding in perfecting a description of the campaign of the valley, and also spent three months at the same occupation in Winchester and vicinity.
In September, 1872, he was married to Martha T., daughter of Henry and Angeline Mish, a native of Virginia, by whom he has had six children, three of whom are living: Wallace, Maggie and Susie. Mrs. Wilson died June 15, 1886, and Dr. Wilson wedded Miss Sallie J. Dunlap, a native of Virginia, in March, 1887, and lost his last wife, in June 1887. In politics Dr. Wilson is a Democrat, and he is a member of the I.O.O.F. He is a public spirited man, and is always interested in laudable public enterprises.
History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri, 1888, Goodspeed Publishing Co, Page 1224
d. cert 17410
Missouri Death Certificate
Dr. James A. Wilson, physician and surgeon, was born in Virginia in 1845, and is the son of Dr. Joseph and Rachel L. (Bell) Wilson, also natives of Virginia, where they spent their entire lives. The father was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, Penn., and made the medical profession his life-long occupation. He was for some time physician and surgeon of the insane asylum of his State, and died at the age of seventy-three, full of professional honors. The mother died in 1853.
Our subject was reared at home, and his early school life was spent at the common schools of his county. He took two courses at the Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va., and read medicine one year with his father. In 1866-67 he attended the medical department of the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville, Va., from which institution he graduated in 1867. A year later he graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York, and immediately commenced to practice his profession in Augusta County, Va., where for a number of years he was recognized as one of the leading physicians.
In 1878 he came to Schuyler County, and located at Green Top, where he has built up an extensive and lucrative practice, and ranks among the foremost in his profession in the county. He also superintends his farm of over 500 acres. In December, 1864, he enlisted in McClannahan's battery, Confederate Army, and served six months during the Virginia campaign. The next six months he had charge of a signal line from Staunton to Huttonsville, Va., and then for three months was at Staunton in the topographical department, aiding in perfecting a description of the campaign of the valley, and also spent three months at the same occupation in Winchester and vicinity.
In September, 1872, he was married to Martha T., daughter of Henry and Angeline Mish, a native of Virginia, by whom he has had six children, three of whom are living: Wallace, Maggie and Susie. Mrs. Wilson died June 15, 1886, and Dr. Wilson wedded Miss Sallie J. Dunlap, a native of Virginia, in March, 1887, and lost his last wife, in June 1887. In politics Dr. Wilson is a Democrat, and he is a member of the I.O.O.F. He is a public spirited man, and is always interested in laudable public enterprises.
History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri, 1888, Goodspeed Publishing Co, Page 1224
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