Biography
      James D. Wilson
      Husband of
      Mary Vaughan
      Submitted by Linda Hubbard



      Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. 

      JAMES D. WILSON was born in Pettis County, Mo., January 29,
      1850. His father, John P. Wilson, was born near Richmond, Va.,
      in 1797, and with his parents removed to Kentucky about the year
      1805. They located in Barren County, where John P. grew to
      manhood and remained during his life, with the exception of a few
      months spent in Missouri in 1850. He was for about forty years
      engaged in a general merchandise trade in Glasgow, Ky., where
      he acquired a considerable property. He was married, in 1827, to
      Miss Mary Goodman, whose parents were natives of the Old
      Dominion, and were of English and French extractions. John
      Wilson, the grandfather of James D., was of Scotch-Irish descent,
      and was one of the original settlers of Barren County, Ky. James
      D. Wilson was less than one year old when his father removed to
      Glasgow, Ky. Here he remained attending school until the autumn
      of 1867, when he entered the Kentucky University at Lexington,
      where he studied mathematics and the collateral sciences, after
      which he returned home and carried on farming for several years;
      then engaged with George S. Moore & Co., wholesale iron dealers,
      with whom he remained in the capacity of traveling salesman for
      two years; he also traveled for one year for O. G. Holt, manufacturer
      of and dealer in musical instruments; then took up the study of law,
      reading with Edwards & Seymour, of Louisville, and was licensed
      to the Kentucky bar in 1878. The practice of the law not being
      altogether to his taste, he gives most of his attention to the cultivation
      of his farm of 100 acres. He was married, in 1881, to Miss Mary
      Vaughan, and to them have been born two daughters: Mellie (deceased)
      and Mary. Mary (Vaughan) Wilson is a daughter of Milton Vaughan,
      of Green County, Ky. Her mother, Mary (Anderson) Vaughan, was a granddaughter of Samuel Cabell, and a relative of John C. Breckin-
      ridge and Albert Sidney Johnston. Mr. Wilson was a member of the
      Louisville Legion, Kentucky State Guard, in which he held the rank
      of first lieutenant of Company A, and commanded the Louisville
      detachment in the Breathitt County expedition. Mr. Wilson is a
      member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while his wife holds
      the Presbyterian faith. He is a Master Mason in Bear Wallow Lodge,
      No. 231, and politically he is a Democrat.
       

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