Wilson, John Thomas

Merchant, abolitionist, fifty year old Union combat infantry officer, and three term member of Congress for Ohio's Eleventh District.

Life Span
to
    Full name
    John Thomas Wilson
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    1
    Family

    Hadassah Glasgow Drysden (wife - died 1849), Spencer Wilson (only child - died of fever in Union service 1862)

    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Farmer or Planter
    Businessman
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Whig
    Republican
    Other Affiliations
    Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    State legislature
    Military
    Union Army
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