Representative John Fulton Wilson View All Years

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John Fulton Wilson

Keokuk County

Born in Ayshire, Scotland, on October 15, 1808. When eighteen years of age he emigrated to the United States and located in Philadelphia, where he resided until the spring of 1837. He was married there to Miss Jane McMillen, March 19, 1830. They came west and located in Tazewell county, Illinois, in the spring of 1837, where they remained until their coming to this county in the fall of 1854; Mr. Wilson was one of the first settlers of this part of the county, and has been closely identified with its interests ever since with the exception of four years during the war, which period he made his home in Washington, this State, and was elected mayor of that city for one term. He was sent to the legislature by the Republican party during the session of 1871 and 1872. While in Philadelphia Mr. Wilson was engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods, but since coming west has principally engaged in farming, until the starting of the town of Keota. He was Keota's first postmaster. He is a man of strict integrity and good business qualifications, and has the entire confidence of all who know him.

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