W W Wilson

WILSON, GORDIN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/30/2006 at 13:43:26

W W Nixon, was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1825, and lived there until sixteen years of age, then removed to Worchester, Ohio, he learned the tailors’ trade in his youth and after remaining three years in Worchester went to Kenton, Hardin county, Ohio, and made it his home until 1864, while living there he was elected county clerk and held the office six and one-half years, but heeding the call of his country for troops to assist in putting down the rebellion of the South he assisted in raising Co K 33 Ohio infantry and was commissioned lieutenant and afterward promoted to captain, after serving for a time he was compelled to resign on account of disability, and he returned to his home, but having regained his health he again entered the service in the 135th Ohio volunteer infantry, in 1864 he came to this State and settled in Nevada, Story county, and lived there two years and came to his county in 1866, he served as a member of the first city council, also two terms as mayor, he held the office of collector of internal revenue in the district three and one-half years, in 1850 Mr Nelson made a trip to California overland and was absent several months, as a man he has been closely identified with the interest of Boone county since he became a resident, as a business man he has been upright, reliable and honorable, as a soldier brave and chivalrous, as a public official attentive and obliging, but inflexible and unswerving in the discharge of his duty, he was married to Miss Phebe Gordin in 1846, she was born in Perry county, Ohio, in 1828, their family consists of four children Willie G (assistant cashier of the Citizens’ National Bank, Des Moines), Fannie E, Susie I and Anna M.

1880 Boone Co History Book