S. W. WILSON
S. W. Wilson, proprietor of the Grove City nursery, is a native of Belmont county, Ohio, and was born on the 7th of August, 1846. When seven years of age his parents removed to Rock Island county, Illinois, and there remained about three years, when they came to Washington county, Iowa, where his father died in 1861, and his mother is still a resident of that county. S. W. there received his education, and there remained until 1871, when he removed to Cass county, and entered into the nursery business, with Silas Wilson. In 1877 the partnership dissolved and since that time Mr. Wilson has run the business alone. He is doing a flourishing business, and has greatly adapted his energy and good management to the welfare of his occupation. Mr. Wilson was married in Cass county, on the 16th of November, 1872, to Amanda Peterson, a native of Iowa. They have four children---Thomas L., Harry M., Clarence L. and Bessie M. The family are members of the United Presbyterian church.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 847.
