WILSON WOODROW Typed Letter Signed to Edward Junius Edwards

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HIS FAMILY HISTORY WILSON, WOODROW. Typed Letter Signed, to Edward Junius Edwards, describing his family's genealogy. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; short closed separations at folds, few separations repaired with tissue verso, small hole at center (not affecting text). (TFC) Princeton, 6 March 1898

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". . . [M]y father, the Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Wilson, is of north of Ireland parentage, and that both his parents came to this country (his mother was a Miss Adams of Philadelphia) at a period subsequent to the Revolution. His father was Judge James Wilson of Steubenville, Ohio, and my father was born at that place in 1823.
"My mother was born in Carlisle, England, of Scottish parents, her father being a Presbyterian clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Woodrow. She came with her father to this country when she was seven years old, and lived during most of her girlhood in Chillicothe, Ohio.
"My father is a Presbyterian clergyman. His first pastoral charge was at Cannonsburg, Pa., but he afterwards moved into the South, and had charges at Staunton, Virginia, Augusta, Ga., and Wilmington, N.C. Since about 1864 he has been Stated Clerk of the Southern Presbyterian Church.
"I was born in Staunton, Virginia, on the 28th day of December, 1856."