DAVID
WILSON, carpenter
for the Mercer County Coal Company, and farmer, post-office Pardoe, was
born September 10, 1832, in Westmoreland County, Penn. His parents,
James and Catharine (McKee) Wilson, were natives of Ireland, and came to
this country while single. They moved to Mercer County about 1840, and
settled in what is now Findley Township, where the mother died in 1878,
and the father in 1876. They had nine children: David; Hannah, married
Alexander Moore; Jane, married William J. Michaels; Sarah A., married
John Axe; Margaret, married A. Highbarger; Catharine, married James
Lusk; Lizzie; Thomas, married Addle Heasley, and Hugh. The parents were
members of the old Springfield United Presbyterian Church. Our subject
was educated in the common schools, and began to learn his trade when
seventeen years of age. He is the carpenter for the Mercer County Coal
Company, and has been since 1878. He was married in 1857 to Mary, a
daughter of Thomas Houston. By this union he has seven children: William
J., a farmer; Jennie, Sadie, married William McCurdy, of Jackson
Township; Mary C., Minnie E., George A. and Thomas, deceased. Mr. Wilson
owns two farms of eighty-one and ninety-one acres, which are the result
of his own labors. He has been school director of Wolf Creek Township
and assistant assessor of Findley Township. He became a member of the
old Springfield Church when Rev. Edward Small was the pastor, and his
wife belongs to the same. He is a Republican, and has taken a deep
interest in every public enterprise.
History
of Mercer County,
1888, pages 972-973
