Biographical Sketch of

Ezra Wilson

Transcribed by Robert Schieber

Source: Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography of Citizens of Columbia, 
Sauk and Adams Counties, Wisconsin, published 1901 by G. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1901, Pages 629 - 630


Ezra Wilson, Deceased, was for many years a highly esteemed and honored citizen of Richfield township, Adams 
county, Wisconsin, his home being on section 2, where his widow still resides.  He was born in Wyoming county, 
Pennsylvania, August 8, 1826, and first came to Adams county, this state, in 1872, but after living here awhile 
he removed to Green Lake county, and did not return to Adams county until 1880.  In early life he worked at the 
carpenter's and millwright's trades, but devoted his last years to farming, owning and operating one hundred 
and forty-five acres on section 2, Richfield township.

Mr. Wilson was twice married, his first wife being Miss Jemima Schooly, of Pennsylvania, who died in Dartford, 
Green Lake county, Wisconsin, December 27, 1869.  By that union nine children were born, namely:  William:  
Jennie, wife of John Brooks, of Junction City, Portage county, Wisconsin;  Mark, who married Irene Allen and 
lives in Georgia;  Lavina, wife of  John Banker, of Berlin, Wisconsin:  Lois:  Walter, who married Viola Davy, 
and is also a resident of Berlin:  Charlie;  and Emma, wife of Frank Leach, of Adams county.

On the 23rd of January, 1874, at Green Bay, Wisconsin, Mr. Wilson married Miss Sarah Linch, who was born in 
Orange county, New York, May 17, 1856, and came to Green Lake county, Wisconsin, in 1868, with her parents, 
Aaron and Sarah (Baird) Linch.  The father, who is a farmer by occupation, is still a resident of that county.  
He served for three months as a soldier of the Civil war at the beginning of that conflict.  His children are 
Mary C., wife of Joseph Taylor, of Dartford, Green Lake county;  Angeline, wife of John Hubert, of South Dakota;  
Martha A., wife of William Wilson, of Antigo, Langlade county, Wisconsin;  Joseph, who married Eva Collen, and 
lives in Illinois;  Dwight, who married Sarah B. Wilson, and makes his home in Dartford, Wisconsin;  Sarah, widow 
of Ezra Wilson, our subject;  William H.;  Cassie, wife of a Mr. Davis, of Columbus, Wisconsin;  Benjamin, who 
wedded Mary Otto, and lives in Rush Lake, Green Lake county;  Josiah, who married Lillie Bradley and resides in 
Dartford;  and Lizzie, wife of Willis Bonnell, of Dartford.  By his second marriage our subject had two sons:  
Lorenzo;  and Orin O., who married Lavina Lahrence and lives at home, where he owns twenty-five acres of land.

Mr. Wilson was a soldier of the civil war, enlisting at Madison, Wisconsin, in Company I, Thirty-first Wisconsin 
Volunteer Infantry, and in later years he was an honored member of Tom Eubank Post, No. 150, G. A. R., at Hancock, 
Wisconsin.  He was well and favorably known and was justly entitled to the high regard in which he was held by his 
fellow citizens and by all who knew him,  for he led an upright, honorable life, and was true to every trust reposed 
to him.  Mrs. Wilson was a member of the Relief corps at Hancock.


Transcribed by Robert Schieber






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