Representative Charles Hellen Wilson View All Years

HON. CHARLES H. WILSON

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life and services of the Honorable Charles H. Wilson, late of Washington County, Iowa, beg leave to report the following memorial:

Charles Helen Wilson was born in Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1834, and died at Washington, Iowa, February 28, 1925. He was the son of William Wilson and Minerva J. Helen Wilson. He attended the common schools, and when seventeen years of age he entered a printing office to learn the printer’s trade. He soon got the western fever, however, and came to Iowa, locating at Muscatine, where he got work in the Muscatine Journal. After working for about a year, he bought a half interest in the paper. His partner was Orion Clemens, a brother of Mark Twain. In January, 1855, Mr. Wilson, with his partner, established the Muscatine Journal, one of the first dailies in the state. Mr. Wilson married Lucy Jane Gray and to this union were born four children. After retiring from the newspaper business in 1858, the family moved to Washington, Iowa. Mrs. Wilson died July 3, 1869. Mr. Wilson was again married November 24, 1870, to Mary Alice Beard and to this union were born three children. In politics he was a Republican, in his church affiliations a Methodist, and he was conspicuously active in both politics and church work. Mr. Wilson was elected to the Fourteenth General Assembly of the State of Iowa. He was also city councilman for several terms, and was twice elected mayor of the city of Washington. Mr. Wilson lived an active and useful life, looking always toward the betterment of the social and moral conditions of the community.

Therefore, Be It Resolved, By the House of Representatives of the Forty-first General Assembly, that we extend our sympathies to the family and express our appreciation of his true worth.

Be it Further Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House and the Chief Clerk be directed to send an engrossed copy to the family.

J. C. BAUER,

JOHN ORR,

A. C. NOBLE,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted March 30, 1925.