Robert P Wilson

WILSON, STOTSER

Posted By: Jeffrey R. Phillips (email)
Date: 2/17/2005 at 22:54:15

!BIOGRAPHY History of Hardin County, Iowa, Springfield, Ill: Union Publishing Company, 1883.
Etna Township, page 679:
Robt. P. Wilson, of the firm of Risse & Wilson, was born in Clinton county, Pa., in 1843, and, when ten years of age, he removed with his parents to Stephenson county, Ill. Here, in 1861, he enlisted in Company A, of the 46th Illinois, and served until January 20, 1865, serving as a fifer in a drum corps. He then came to Hardin county, and, in 1867, married Miss Maria Stotser. He continued farming until he engaged in his present business. Their children are, Minnie, Willie, Frank and Mollie.