Richard Thomas Wilson and Jessie Kifer

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Husband Richard Thomas Wilson ¹

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           Born: 1 Aug 1871 - Clarion Co, PA 1
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         Father: Hon. John Harvey Wilson (1841-      ) 1 2 3
         Mother: Minerva Jane Frampton (      -      ) 2 3 4

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       Marriage: 9 Jul 1898 5

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Wife Jessie Kifer ⁵

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           Born: 12 Aug 1871 5
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         Father: Joseph Kifer (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Margaret Thompson (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 F Esther Wilson ⁵

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           Born: 1899 5
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2 F Margaret Wilson ^{5 6}

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           Born: 1901 5
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         Spouse: Ernst Ellsworth Slicker (1891-      ) 7 8
           Marr: 13 May 1937 6

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3 M Richard Wilson ⁵

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           Born: 1902 5
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General Notes: Husband - Richard Thomas Wilson

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He was educated in the public schools of Monroe township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, and in the Reidsburg Academy. Subsequently he attended the Indiana Normal School at Indiana, Pennsylvania, and he also completed a commercial course in the Iron City College, at Pittsburgh. After completing his educational training he worked on the road for his father, selling buggies for three years. He also worked in a saw mill for a time and for three years dressed tools in the oil business. In 1898 he settled on a farm near Reidsburg and resided thereon for the ensuing five years, at the expiration of which, in 1903, he came to the borough of Sligo, where he then maintained his home and engaged in the lumber business. He had five lumber mills in various townships in Clarion County did a good business. He was a Democrat in politics, and while he had no desire for the honors or emoluments of public office of any description he was loyal and public spirited in his civic attitude and did all in his power to forward the wheels of progress and improvement. Fraternally he was a valued and appreciative member of the Knights of the Maccabees and the Masons.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 979.

2 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), Pg 662.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1382.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 692.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 980.

6 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 495.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1581.

8 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 494.