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Below is a family biography included in History of Shawnee County, Kansas and Representative Citizens by James L. King, published by Richmond & Arnold, 1905.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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A. P. TONE WILSON, JR.
A. P. Tone Wilson, Jr., attorney-at-law and real estate specialist, at Topeka, with offices at No. 413 Kansas avenue, is one of the city’s progressive, enterprising and successful business men. Mr. Wilson was born in Nebraska, June 26, 1874, and is a son of Anthony P. and Mary E (Boldon) Wilson.

Anthony P. Wilson, father of our subject, is one of the leading attorneys of Topeka and is largely also interested in farm loans and insurance, together with the publishing of a very valuable and important journal known as the Kansas Collection Agency Legal Directory. He was born at Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1846, and completed his law studies at Milwaukee. During three years of the Civil War he honorably wore the Union blue, serving as a member of Company I, 33rd Reg., Wisconsin Vol. Inf. In 1867 he took a homestead in Southeastern Nebraska, and in 1904 located at Topeka. His beautiful residence is located at No. 1220 Logan street, North Topeka. Mr. Wilson married Mary E. Boldon, formerly a school teacher of Alden, Iowa. They have a family of five sons and two daughters, all of the sons adopting law as their profession. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are associated with the Christian Church.

A. P. Tone Wilson, Jr., completed his early education in the Nebraska schools and then graduated from the Western Business College, at Lincoln, subsequently entering the Kansas City Law School, at Kansas City, Missouri, where he was graduated with the class of 1898 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. For the next five years he practiced law at Colby, Kansas, removing then to Topeka where he has continued in successful practice, having numerous cases before the Supreme Court. In addition to his large legal business, he is extensively interested with his father and three brothers in Kansas real estate, this private syndicate owning over 15,000 acres of some of the best land in the “Sunflower” State. Mr. Wilson has made so close a study of land values and conditions that he has become an expert and is known under the modern title of real estate specialist. His personal experiences have been so many and his means of observation and investigation so perfect, that few are better calculated to advise as to land investments. He believes thoroughly in printer’s ink and his name confronts the reader in fully 2,500 different papers, magazines and journals. He is also interested with his able father in the publication of the Legal Directory, its aim being to provide a medium by which merchants may safely and quickly secure the co-operation of reliable attorneys, who will give prompt attention to their wants. The Kansas Collection Agency, which publishes this directory, is controlled by Anthony P. Wilson and A. P. Tone Wilson, Jr. It was organized for the purpose of making collections throughout the United States and supplying high-class credit reports. The business of the agency is conducted at No. 413 Kansas avenue.

On January 8, 1903, Mr. Wilson was married at Panama, Iowa, to Lula Smith. They belong to the First Presbyterian Church. Their beautiful home at No. 1535 Topeka avenue is the scene of many delightful social functions.

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