Born at Chelsea in Tama county, Iowa on July 8, 1861. His father Colonel B. Wilson was a veteran the Mexican and Civil wars, a pioneer of Tama county and prominent in that section after the war. He married Edith Wilkinson January 26, 1886, in Chelsea. He was in the lumber, grain and banking business for twenty years at Marathon, Iowa. After that he engaged in banking at Boone and Sioux City. In 1904 he went into the wholesale lumber business at Spokane Washington. He came to Spencer in 1916, and was for two years a member of the grain firm of DeWolf and Wells. He established the Wilson Grain Company July 1, 1918, and the Wilson Coal Company, both of Spencer. Mr. Wilson took much interest in public affairs. He was representative for Buena Vista county in the Iowa legislature for two terms, chairman of the republican county committee at Spokane, and Clay county, food administrator during the war. He was a trustee of Grace Methodist church, a Mason and a Knight Templar.

Born at Chelsea in Tama county, Iowa on July 8, 1861. His father Colonel B. Wilson was a veteran the Mexican and Civil wars, a pioneer of Tama county and prominent in that section after the war. He married Edith Wilkinson January 26, 1886, in Chelsea. He was in the lumber, grain and banking business for twenty years at Marathon, Iowa. After that he engaged in banking at Boone and Sioux City. In 1904 he went into the wholesale lumber business at Spokane Washington. He came to Spencer in 1916, and was for two years a member of the grain firm of DeWolf and Wells. He established the Wilson Grain Company July 1, 1918, and the Wilson Coal Company, both of Spencer. Mr. Wilson took much interest in public affairs. He was representative for Buena Vista county in the Iowa legislature for two terms, chairman of the republican county committee at Spokane, and Clay county, food administrator during the war. He was a trustee of Grace Methodist church, a Mason and a Knight Templar.