DAVID
WILSON, carpenter for the Mercer County Coal Company, and farmer,
post-office Pardoe, was born September 10, 1832, in Westmoreland
County, Penn. His parents, James and Catharine (McKee) Wilson, were
natives of Ireland, and came to this country while single. They moved
to Mercer County about 1840, and settled in what is now Findley
Township, where the mother died in 1878, and the father in 1876. They
had nine children: David; Hannah, married Alexander Moore; Jane,
married William J. Michaels; Sarah A., married John Axe; Margaret,
married A. Highbarger; Catharine, married James Lusk; Lizzie; Thomas,
married Addle Heasley, and Hugh. The parents were members of the old
Springfield United Presbyterian Church. Our subject was educated in the
common schools, and began to learn his trade when seventeen years of
age. He is the carpenter for the Mercer County Coal Company, and has
been since 1878. He was married in 1857 to Mary, a daughter of Thomas
Houston. By this union he has seven children: William J., a farmer;
Jennie, Sadie, married William McCurdy, of Jackson Township; Mary C.,
Minnie E., George A. and Thomas, deceased. Mr. Wilson owns two farms of
eighty-one and ninety-one acres, which are the result of his own
labors. He has been school director of Wolf Creek Township and
assistant assessor of Findley Township. He became a member of the old
Springfield Church when Rev. Edward Small was the pastor, and his wife
belongs to the same. He is a Republican, and has taken a deep interest
in every public enterprise.
Source: History of Mercer County, 1888, page 972-973
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