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Preferred Citation

John Wilson Scrapbook, 1876-1886, Accession # 10489-a, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This scrapbook was made a gift to the Library by Mrs. Sandi Melton of Charlottesville, Virginia, on July 25, 1997.

Biographical/Historical Information

John Wilson was born in 1861 at Shrewsbury, New Jersey. the son of the Reverend Thaddeus Wilson and Charlotte Miller. He was a graduate of Princeton College and received his LL.B. degree from the University of Virginia. He married Susan Colston Minor (1864--1937), daughter of Nannie Colston and John Barbee Minor, professor at the University of Virginia, on November 22, 1894. At the time of his death in Spring Lake, New Jersey, on February 13, 1899, he was an attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Scope and Content Information

This scrapbook, ca. 1876-1886, was compiled by John Wilson (1861-1899), primarily while a student at the Princeton College [University], formerly the College of New Jersey. There are also mementoes from Freehold Institute, Philips' Exeter Academy, and Harvard College. Included are correspondence, grade reports, examination schedules, programs, invitations, president's reports, baseball score cards, newspaper clippings, and other mementoes. There is an abstract of J. H. Salisbury's work on defective alimentation and a medical pamphlet on digestive diseases. There are letters addressed to Wilson while at the Normal School in Indiana, Pennsylvania. A letter, April 17, 1883, from Arthur L[alanne] Kimball (1856-1922), at Johns Hopkins University, details the University's features for both graduate and undergraduate students.