Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Robert Henderson Wilson and Emma L. Blakely




Husband Robert Henderson Wilson 1 2

           Born: 9 Jul 1851 - South Bend Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: James D. Wilson (1818-1895) 2 3
         Mother: Nancy Wray (1825-Aft 1913) 3 4


       Marriage: 5 Dec 1878 3 4



Wife Emma L. Blakely 3 4

            AKA: Emma Blakeley 5
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         Father: James Blakely (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Jane [Unk] (      -      ) 5




Children
1 F Florence Wilson 3 6

           Born: 11 Jan 1880 6
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         Spouse: Roy A. Long (      -      ) 6


2 M Karl C. Wilson 3 6

           Born: 23 Dec 1881 6
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         Spouse: Eva Miller (      -      ) 6


3 F Zora Wray Wilson 6

           Born: 1 Feb 1884 6
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         Spouse: Clark J. McKee (      -      ) 6


4 F Irene Blakely Wilson 6

           Born: 9 Jan 1886 6
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5 M Robert Murdoch Wilson 6

           Born: 11 Jun 1888 6
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6 M James D. Wilson 6

           Born: 14 Nov 1892 6
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           Died: 2 Dec 1893 6
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry


7 F Mary Abigail Wilson 6

           Born: 14 Nov 1894 6
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General Notes: Husband - Robert Henderson Wilson


He received his early education in the common schools and Eldersridge academy. He took his college course at the Western University of Pennsylvania (later the University of Pittsburgh), studying civil engineering, and then engaged in general engineering work. This professional work included the design and superintendence of construction of important municipal water systems, town and city sewerage and paving, and plans for, and installation of, extensive colliery plants through the Pennsylvania bituminous region, and he served a term as county surveyor of Armstrong County. Mr. Wilson had a large practice as a consulting engineer and geologist, and his work in this line was quite extensive, reaching from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in eastern Canada, through Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and into Kentucky. He was chief engineer for the Armstrong County Coal Company and Valley Coal Company, of Leechburg, Pennsylvania, the Aladdin Coal and Coke Company, with mines at Aladdin, Pennsylvania, the Dents Run Mining Company, Elk County, Pennsylvania, Armerford Coal Mining Company, Dilltown, Pennsylvania, the Kier Fire Brick Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with mines and plant at Salina, and mines at Kittanning, and for the Clymer Water Company, of Indiana, Pennsylvania. He was for sixteen years borough engineer for Leechburg, and was engineer for the boroughs of Hyde Park and Avonmore. He was a member of the town council, and secretary of the Board of Trade in his home town of Saltsburg. He was the last remaining of the original board of trustees of Eldersridge academy, serving in that capacity for thirty-seven years.
In addition to his professional activities Mr. Wilson found some time to devote to the gentler and more thoughtful side of life as a musical and literary writer, some of his productions having received not only national but international recognition and approval. He was a Progressive Republican in politics, and a member of the United Presbyterian Church.


General Notes: Wife - Emma L. Blakely

from West Lebanon, PA

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Sources


1 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 396x, 620.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 617.

3 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 396x.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 618.

5 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 620
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6 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 619.


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