Wilson (IV)
JEREMIAH MORROW, an American jurist; born in Warren co., O., Nov. 25, 1828; received an academic education; was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette co., Ind., in 1860-1865; judge of the Circuit Court in 1865-1871; member of Congress in 1871- 1875; declined a renomination; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D. C. During his professional career in that city Judge Wilson was connected with numerous famous cases. Besides having acted as attorney for the Union Pacific railroad and the Mormon Church, he counsel for the plaintiff in the was Breckinridge-Pollard breach of promise suit, defended the sugar witnesses who had refused to testify before a Senate counsel in the courtcommittee; was martial of General Swain, and was connected with the "Alabama Claims" and the French "Spoliation" cases; etc. In 1901, after the Navy Department had granted the request of Admiral Schley for a court of inquiry, the admiral chose Judge Wilson as his chief counsel. While serving as such Judge Wilson died suddenly in Washington, D. C., Sept. 24, 1901.
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Wilson (JAMES an American)
JAMES, an American agriculturist; born in Ayrshire, Scotland, Aug. 16, 1835. He removed with his father to the United States in 1852, and in 1855 settled in Iowa. He served three terms in the Iowa Legislature, being ing speaker for two years. He was elected to the 43d, 44th and 48th Congresses. In 1891 he was Professor of Agriculture in the Iowa Agricultural College. In 1897 he was appointed Secretary of the Department of Agriculture in the cabinet of President McKinley; was reappointed in 1901; and retained by President Roosevelt on his accession the same year. He died in 1920.
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Wilson (JAMES GRANT an American author)
JAMES GRANT, an American author; born in New York City, April 28, 1832; served in the Civil War. Besides numerous addresses, essays, and articles in periodicals, he published: "Biographical Sketches of Illinois Officers" (1862-1863); "Love in Letters, Illustrated in the Correspondence of Eminent Persons" (1867); "Life of General Grant" (1868-1885); "Life of Fitz- Greene Halleck" (1869); "Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers" (1874); "Poets and is the Life of the Nation"; "The Repub- Poetry of Scotland" (1876); "Centennial History of the Diocese of New York, 1775-1885" (1886); "Bryant and His Friends" (1886); "Commodore Isaac Hull and the Frigate Constitution" (1889); Life of General Grant" (1897); "The President of the United States" (1901); etc. He was the editor (with John Fiske) of "Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography" (6 vols. 1886- 1889), and alone of "Memorial History of the City of New York." He died in 1914.
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Wilson (JOHN a Scotch missionary near)
JOHN, a Scotch missionary; near Lauder, Scotland, Dec. 11 born 1804; was educated at the University of , Edinburgh, went out to Bombay in the service of the Scottish Missionary Society, and in 1843 transferred his labors to the mission work of the Free Church of Scotland. He established numerous schools; became vice-chancellor of the University of Bombay; contributed largely to the abolition of the practice of suttee; traveled all over India establishing missionary centers; and was universally honored and beloved by the natives. His linguistic ability was remarkable, and his contributions to literature included: "The Parsi Religion" (1842); "India Three Thousand Years Ago" (1857); "Memoirs on the Cave-Temples Cyc of India" (1859); "The Lands of the Bible Visited and Described" (1867); and "Indian Caste" (1877). He died in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dec. 1875.
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Wilson (SIR DANIEL a Canadian educator)
SIR DANIEL, a Canadian educator; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Jan. 5, 1816; received a classical education and on leaving college in 1837 went to London and there adopted literature and journalism as a profession. A few years later he returned to Edinburgh where he studied archæology; became secretary of the Scottish Society of Antiquarians and undertook the editorship of its "Proceedings." In 1853 he was made Professor of English Literature and history in University College, Toronto, where he remained till 1880, when he was called to the presidency of Toronto University. On the formation of the Royal Society of Canada, in 1882, he was elected chairman of the section of History, Archæology, and English Literature; and succeeded to the presidency of the society in 1885. In 1888 he was knighted by the queen. Sir Daniel was also a fellow of the Royal Societies of Edinburgh, Italy, and Copenhagen; the founder of the Newsboys' Home in Toronto; chairman for several years of the Ontario Teachers' Association; president of the Young Men's Christian Association in 1 Toronto; and the author of "Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time"; "Prehistoric Annals of Scotland"; "Chatterton: a Biographical Study"; "Spring Wild Flowers"; and numerous contributions to periodical literature, etc. He died in Toronto, Canada, Aug. 7, 1892.
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Wilson (V)
JOHN, pseudonym, CHRIS- TOPHER NORTH, a Scotch author; born in Paisley, Scotland, May 18, 1785; was educated at Glasgow University and at Magdalen College, Oxford; noted as a scholar and athlete; settled in Cumberland, and became one of the "Lake Group" with Wordsworth, De Quincey, Southey, and Coleridge. Losing most of his inherited fortune, he removed to Edinburgh and studied law. From the starting of "Blackwood's Magazine" in 1817 he was a chief contributor, and was for many years its generally accredited head. For it he wrote (with Maginn and others, but largely alone) the "Noctes Ambrosianæ," by which he is best remembered-imaginary dialogues at Ambrose's tavern in Edinburgh, between the leading contributors to the magazine; a selection from these was published in 1876. He also wrote among other things: "The Isle of Palms" (1812), and "The City of the Plague" (1816), poems; , poems; of Scottish Life" "Lights and Shadows ows (1822); "The Trials of Margaret Lindsay" (1823); "The Foresters" (1825); and "Essay on the Genius and Character of Burns" (1841). He was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University from 1820 to near the end of his life. He died in Edinburgh, April 3, 1854.
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Wilson (VI)
SIR ROBERT THOMAS, an English military writer; born in London, England, in 1777. He served in the Peninsular war; was British military commissioner at the Russian and Allied headquarters, 1812-1814; member of Parliament and governor of Gibraltar, 1842-1849. He wrote: "History of the British Expedition to Egypt" (1802); "Sketches of the Campaigns in Poland" (1810); "Military and Political Power of Russia" (1817); "Narrative of Events During the Invasion of Russia, 1812" (1860); "Diary" (1861); etc. He died in London, May 9, 1849. an English
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