James Wilson (Indiana)


James Wilson was a United States Representative from Indiana. He and his wife, Emma Wilson daughter of Stephen Ingersoll and Hannah Elizabeth Bullard, sister to Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, were the parents of John Lockwood Wilson, Howard Wilson and Henry Lane Wilson.

James Wilson was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1825. He graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville in 1842 at the age of seventeen. In 1845, he graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, with a degree in law.

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