West Wilson

WILSON, LUSK

Posted By: Jeanie
Date: 5/17/2005 at 19:00:58

West Wilson.

Among the early pioneer settlers, and one who has watched the growth of this populous County from a mere wilderness of but few inhabitants to its present proportions, and has seen it take its place among the most important of Iowa’s Counties is the person which heads this sketch. Mr. Wilson is a leading farmer and stock raiser of Crystal township. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in the year 1820. His parents were James and Jane (Lusk) Wilson, who were both natives of that country. He had very little opportunity for education in his early youth but acquired a fair education at the common schools being at the same time engaged in aiding his father to carry on the farm. Leaving Scotland Mr. Wilson emigrated to Connecticut where he remained until the year 1856, when he came to this State and settled in Crystal township, Tama County, on section 13. He has a beautiful farm consisting of six hundred and sixty-six acres, the most of which is under cultivation and pasture. Of late years Mr. Wilson has been paying considerable attention to the raising of fine stock and now he has a large number of the best blooded cattle. Mr. Wilson, besides carrying on this immense farms, is engaged in the grain business at Traer, where he handles thousands of bushels annually through his elevator and warehouses. He is also interested in a lumber yard at Morrison Grundy County. In all the various changes of an active life Mr. Wilson has gained the respect of a large circle of friends and the confidence of the community.

From the History of Tama County, Iowa. by Samuel D. Chapman. Printed at the Toledo Times Office. 1879. Page 155.