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The subject of this sketch was born August 21, 1861, in Quitman, Wood County, Texas, the only son of John W. Wilson and
Ellen Thompson, a Cherokee by blood. After his parents died
in 1869, he was sent to school in the neighborhood for four years,
and in 1878 went to Alexander Institute, Kilgore, Texas, where he
remained one year. Returning to Wood County he commenced
farming, and continued it for two years, after which he attended
bar for Col. G. W. Haines, of Quitman, for about the same length
pf time. Moving to Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, he accepted a
position as clerk for Johnston Thompson, of that place, for twelve
months, after which he entered R. M. French's establishment, remainiug in that position for seven months, until he purchased
the livery stable built by Mr. Alberty, and embarked in the livery
business, in which he still continues. Dr. Wilson married Miss Ida
Jeffers, of Berryville, Arkansas, July 29, 1889, a daughter of John
Jeffers, a white man, and brother of Drs. Captain Adair, of Tahlequah. By this marriage they have one child, born May 7, 1890.
Dr. Wilson's stable consists of sixteen horses, four buggies and
five hacks, while his building and lot is valued at $2,500. He is
also owner of a farm of 250 acres, two miles west of town, sixty
acres of which is in good cultivation, and a small stock of cattle,
hoos.etc. Dr. Wilson is six feet high, weighs 195 pounds, and is
a man of fine intellectual appearance, full of energy and enterprise
and very popular. |
