WI BIO - Winnebago Co - WILSON, Henry

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1167

Henry WILSON, foreman, W. L. [Williamson, Libbey] & Company, was born 17 
September 1820 in Lincoln County, Maine. He was first engaged in the milling 
business in Maine. About 1854 he moved to Williamsport, Pennsylvania 
[probably Williamsport in Lycoming County, not Williamsport in Northampton 
County] and engaged in the same business. Henry WILSON came to Wisconsin in 
1859. He located in Oshkosh [Winnebago County], and engaged in filing, which 
he followed until he enlisted.

In 1861 Henry WILSON enlisted in Company B, Third Wisconsin Volunteer 
Infantry. He was taken prisoner in 1862 in BANK's retreat in the Shenandoah 
Valley, and was sent to Belle Isle, where he remained some four months, and 
was then exchanged and discharged for disability. He returned to Oshkosh for 
a time, and then he removed to Chicago [Cook County], Illinois, where he 
remained some twelve years engaged as foreman of a planing mill. He then 
returned to Oshkosh, where he finally located, and has been with the present 
firm [Williamson, Libbey & Company] six years.

In 1865 Henry WILSON was married in Chicago [Cook County, Illinois] to [Mrs.] 
Mary REYNOLDS, of Chicago. Mrs. REYNOLDS had at the time two children by her 
former husband, George [REYNOLDS], who died in 1881. [One of these two 
children], John R. [REYNOLDS], is now in Oshkosh [Winnebago County, 
Wisconsin]. Mr. [Henry] WILSON is a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows. 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly