Wilson, B. W.

WILSON, LUX, HALL

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/12/2013 at 08:43:39

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

WILSON, B.W.—Jefferson Twp—pg 973-4. Farmer and stock-raiser, section 6, P.O. Chelsea, Tama county. Was born June 17, 1827, in Jackson county, Indiana, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in tilling the soil until July, 1846, when he enlisted in a regiment of mounted riflemen, and served in the Mexican War, being in eight general engagements and many skirmishes, and was twice promoted as a reward for his services. August 22, 1848, he received his discharge and returned to Indiana, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising till 1851, when he came to Iowa and settled in Iowa county, and there farmed till 1852, then moved to Tama county, where he engaged in improving 160 acres of land, given him by the United States government, and in the spring of 1857, he bought and settled where he now lives and owns 125 acres of well-improved land, also owns 27 acres in Tama county. Mr. Wilson was married, September 2, 1851, in Warren county, Illinois, to Miss Mary E. Lux a resident of Illinois, and a native of Indiana. From this union they have nine children: L.W. (aged 28 years; married and lives in Montezuma, is the present deputy clerk), Mary A. (aged 26 years; now the wife of James T. Hall, of Tama county), Adin T (aged 24 years; married and lives in Cedar Rapids), David A. (aged 22 years; lives with his parents), Ella (aged 21 years), A.J. (aged 19 years), Delia L. (aged 13 years), Orange F. (aged 11 years) and Ed. (aged 9 years). Mr. Wilson responded to his country’s call in 1862; raised a company of infantry in this and adjoining counties, and was commissioned captain and assigned to the Twenty-eighth Iowa, and was mustered into the army at Iowa City; he participated in sixteen general and many minor engagements. In April 1863 he was promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy of his regiment, and in the Red River campaign, on account of the colonel being wounded, he took the command of the regiment which position he filled very satisfactorily till the close of the war; while in command of his regiment in battle at Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864; he was wounded in the thigh disabling him about one month.