My Genealogy Hound

George B. Wilson, merchant, and clerk and master of the chancery court, was born in Livingston County, N. Y., April 2, 1838, son of W. J. and Mary (Garvin) Wilson, and is of Scotch-Irish origin. W. J. Wilson was born in Pennsylvania in 1806, and his wife in the Green Mountain State in 1808. She died in 1875. Samuel Wilson, our subject’s paternal grandfather, was a Pennsylvanian. George B. Wilson was educated at Temple Hill Academy in Geneseo, N. Y. In 1856 he went to St. Louis, Mo., and for one year was clerk in the district court clerk’s office. In 1857 he came to Obion County, Tenn., and settled in Troy, where he was engaged in teaching school from 1857 to 1861. At the latter date he enlisted in Obion Avalanche Company, Ninth Tennessee Infantry, and served as private for four years. After the war he came back to Troy and continued to teach the “young idea” one year. In 1866 he engaged in general merchandising, and has since continued that business, having one of the most complete stocks of goods in Troy. He is a Democrat, and in 1875 was appointed clerk of the circuit court by Judge Hawkins to fill a vacancy. In 1876 he was appointed to his present position, which he is filling very efficiently. In 1867 Eliza G. Williamson, of Giles County, became his wife. She was born in 1850, is the mother of one child, Carroll P., and belongs to the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.