History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. 5, p. 220-1,
Pendleton County

     JOHN ELMER WILSON, M. D. The honor of the longest service as a
physician and surgeon in the Butler community of Pendleton County
belongs to Dr. John Elmer Wilson, who has practiced there almost a
quarter of a century.  He is one of the highly esteemed citizens ,
though his complete energies and talents have been absorbed in his
profession, and through that work alone he has satisfied the normal
ambitions for usefulness to his fellow men.
     Doctor Wilson represents an old family of Scotch origin in
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.  He was born there at Warriors Mark
August 17, 1865.  His grandfather, Thomas Wilson, was born in the same
county in 1812, and died at Warriors Mark in 1882.  He was prominent in
the coal industry and was a master collier.  He married a Miss Hoover,
also a native and life-long resident of Huntingdon County.  Their son,
Christopher Wilson, was born in 1836 and died in 1911, spending all his
life near Warriors Mark as a farmer.  He was a democrat, an active
member of the Lutheran Church, and during the Civil war served in the
Home Guards.  Christopher Wilson married Miss Mary Martha Wheeling, who
is still living at Warriors Mark, where she was born in 1846.  Of her
five children all three sons have earned creditable distinction in the
medical profession.  The oldest, Thomas L., is a graduate of the
Baltimore Medical College and is practicing at Bellwood, Pennsylvania. 
The second son is Dr. John E. of Butler, Kentucky.  The third child,
Elizabeth, is the wife of William Wolf, a resident of Altoona,
Pennsylvania, and for many years assistant health officer there.  The
fourth is Luella, wife of Edward Rumberger, a farmer near Warriours
Mark.  The third son, Harry, is a graduate of the Baltimore Medical
College and is a physician and surgeon at Warriors Mark.
     John Elmer Wilson spent his life to the age of nineteen on his
father's farm, and acquired a rural school education in Huntingdon
County.  To pay his way through college he was employed on public work,
and for two years, 1887-8, was a student in Juniata College in
Pennsylvania and completed a course in the Central State Normal at
Lockhaven, receiving the degree Master of English in 1890.  During two
years of this student period he taught in Huntingdon County and for six
years was identified with school work in Clinton County, Pennsylvania. 
He taught there while attending the Medical Department of the National
Norma University at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he received his M.D.
degree in 1896.  In 1897 he graduated in medicine from the Cincinnati
College of Medicine and Surgery, and in the same year began his practice
at Butler.  He is a member in good standing of the Kentucky State and
American Medical Association.  For a number of years Doctor Wilson
performed the duties of city health officer, served a number of terms on
the School Board and for fifteen years was president of the City
Council.  He is independent in politics.  During the World war he
received a lieutenant's commission in the Medical Reserve Corps, but was
unable to enter active serve.  He owns a modern and comfortable home on
Peoples Avenue.
     In 1895, near Butler, he married, Miss Laura Bradford, daughter of
Henry and Hannah (Brown) Bradford, both deceased.  Her father was a
farmer of Pendleton County.  Doctor and Mrs. Wilson have one son, Henry
Christopher, born January 4, 1903, who graduated from the Butler High
School in 1920 and from Nelson's Business College of Cincinnati in 1921,
and is now a teacher in the public schools.

Bradford Brown Hoover Rumberger Wheeling Wilson Wolf
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Pendleton-KY Huntington-PA

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