John M. Wilson

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1832-03-07

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1903-07-21

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"John M. Wilson" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00017731, (accessed May 19, 2025).

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Grant County, Kentucky, physician and politician. Pendleton County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Wilson and Zerilda S. Thomas Wilson. Married Nannie Kerr Wilson on May 15, 1860. Father of Corrine Wilson. Graduated from the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1854. Physician in Grant County, Kentucky, in 1860. Secretary for the Union Democratic Party in Grant County in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 989.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 602B.
"Union Meeting in Grant County," Louisville Journal (Louisville, KY), March 17, 1863, p. 4.
"Dr. J. M. Wilson Dead," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), July 22, 1869, p. 4.
W, H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky. A History of the State, 7th Edition (F. A. Battey and Company: Louisville, 1887), 912-3.

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