WI BIO - Sheboygan Co - WILSON, August H. P. 

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
999

August H. P. WILSON, pastor of First Baptist Church, Sheboygan, Sheboygan 
County, Wisconsin, was born 10 February 1848 in Germany. He was educated in 
Hanover [Germany]. He came to America in 1869, and was engaged in a 
mercantile capacity for two years in Pennsylvania. Mr. WILSON was ordained 
[as a Lutheran minister] at Germantown [in Montgomery, Washington, Mahoning, 
Trumbull, Wyandot, or Huron County?], Ohio in 1872. He was at Crestline 
[Crawford County], Ohio for three years, and had charge of a German Lutheran 
Church.

Mr. WILSON was ordained into the Baptist Church at Manchester [Washtenaw 
County], Michigan in 1878, and had charge of the First Baptist Church there 
for over a year, then officiated at Clayton [Lenawee County], Michigan up to 
November 1880, when he came to Wisconsin, located here [Sheboygan] and has 
been engaged in his present capacity since.

On 25 December 1871 he [August H. P. WILSON] was married at Eaton Rapids 
[Eaton County], Michigan, to Alice LEWIS [a maiden name?], who was born in 
Michigan. They [August H. P. and Alice WILSON] have two children: Catherina 
T. and Martha O.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly