Kings County Biographies


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JOHN A. WILSON
 
One of the leading cattle men of his district, John A. Wilson, who lives at No. 
720 North Irwin street, Hanford, was born in 1862, in the part of Tulare county 
which is now Kings county, twelve miles northeast of the site of Hanford, a son 
of O. L. and Rose J. Wilson. The elder Wilson came to California in 1848 and was 
a pioneer of pioneers. He mined in Placer county and on the Feather and American 
rivers and after 1850 settled in the vicinity of Gilroy, where he farmed 
extensively until 1857. In that year he married and came to this part of the 
state.
It was in the district schools of the days of his youth that John A. Wilson was 
educated. He began at seventeen, with some financial aid from his father, to 
fight the battle of life for himself. His career since then has been one of ups 
and downs, but he has never gone down hopelessly and he is undeniably up at this 
time so well established that there is little probability that he will suffer 
further disaster.
In 1887 Mr. Wilson married Miss Mary Alcorn, of California, and their daughter 
is the wife of Marion Hefton, of Hanford. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
includes Mr. Wilson as one of the most valued members of its Hanford 
organizations, and he is popular not only with the brethren of the order but 
with the citizens of Hanford and Kings county generally. Friendly and 
optimistic, he has a pleasant word for all whom he meets and a ready hand for 
the assistance of the general interests of the town.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp.  851
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler