Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

HENRY B. WILSON, grain merchant, Beardstown; was born in 
Bertie County, N.C., Sept. 2, 1829, and is the eldest of a 
family of eleven children, born to James D. and Sallie 
(Mizell) Wilson. James D. Wilson was born in North 
Carolina, Jan. 9, 1806; he was a cooper by trade; and in 
1851 settled on a farm in Arenzville Precinct, this county, 
where he died in 1857; he was married in October, 1838, to 
Sallie Mizell, who died in February, 1881, age 73 years; of 
their eleven children all are living, save one son. Mr. 
Wilson learned the cooper's trade with his father, and 
worked at it in his native State; after his father's death 
he worked the farm until 1860; he then came to Beardstown, 
and after clerking a short time there for Mr. Seeger, 
bought out his stock, which he sold in 1863, and then was 
employed by different firms as salesman, until 1870. In 
that year he entered into partnership with John R. Dutch, 
in company with whom he carried on a general merchandising 
and grain business, until the fall of 1874, when their 
store, stock and warehouse were burned, entailing a loss of 
$25,000. Mr. Wilson then engaged in the grain business, and 
in 1878, became a member of the firm of Garm, Wilson & Co., 
who bought the steamboat "Maggie P," and barges, carrying 
on an extensive grain business until the spring of 1882 
when they sold the steamboat. They have warehouses at 
Beardstown, Bluff Springs, West Point and Bath, and have 
leased others on the Illinois River. In 1861, Mr. Wilson 
married Angeline, daughter of G.H. Seeger, of Beardstown; 
they have had seven children, of whom two sons and two 
daughters are living.

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