Biography of John Wilson, page 1025.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

John Wilson, farmer, section 30, Wilmington Township, was born in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, March 14, 1840, a son of James and Jane (Moody) Wilson, who 
came to De Kalb County in the fall of 1844 and settled in the woods on 
section 33, Wilmington Township, coming from Ohio in a one-horse wagon.  The 
father died in 1847. When a youth our subject learned the carpenter’s trade 
and worked at it several years.  He spent a year and a half in Traverse Bay, 
Mich.  He enlisted in the war of the Rebellion in Company E, Eleventh 
Indiana Infantry, known as General Lew Wallace’s Zouaves, and served over 
four years.  He participated in the battles of Fort Henry, Fort  Hymen, Fort 
Donelson, Shiloh, Port Gibson, Champion Hills and several others.  He was 
married May 17, 1866, to Amanda Bair, daughter of Rudolph Bair, who moved to 
Allen County, Ind., in 1845.  Mrs. Wilson is a native of Holmes County, 
Ohio, born in September, 1844.  To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have been born four 
children---Morton R., James A.B., Alma O. and Mary M.  Mr. Wilson served 
this township as Justice of the Peace five years, when he resigned.  He 
has been a successful farmer and now owns 150 acres of valuable land, 
sixty acres of it being in Union Township.  He is a member of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, and he and his wife and Morton and Alma are members 
of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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