WILSON, L P

WILSON - TUCKER

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Date: 2/15/2007 at 12:54:22

L P WILSON
(1883 History of Bremer County - pages 1018-1019)

L. P. WILSON was born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, on the 22nd of June, 1837. Here he received his education in the common school, and remained with his parents on their farm until he reached the age of twenty-five. In the spring of 1855, the family moved west and settled in Buchanan County, Iowa, where L. P. farmed until 1864, when he came to Bremer County. He first settled in Franklin township, living there until the spring of 1872. He then came to Douglas Township, and settled on the farm where he now lives, and which he had purchased the year previous. Mr. WILSON takes a great interest in stock raising, hogs being a specialty with him. He has from seventy-five to one hundred of the celebrated Poland-China breed, and owns seventeen full-blooded animals of that breed. Around the buildings, is a fine grove of shade trees of his own planting, which lessons the excessive heat of summer and breaks the coldest winds of our northern winters. On his farm is also an orchard of seventy-five thrifty trees. He was married in Buchanan County on the 19th of March, to Miss Olive Lucinda TUCKER, who is a native of Tompkins County, New York, born October 20, 1842. Three children have been born to them - Samuel Parks, born March 2nd, 1863, in Buchanan County; Mary Jane born August 29, 1864, in Bremer County; Perry Ulysses, born October 6, 1865, in this county.

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