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    Person Info
  • Name: Wilford Murry WILSON
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 24 Jan 1860 in South Shenango Twp, Crawford Co, Pennsylvania b
  • Death: 23 Jan 1943 in St Petersburg, Florida d
  • Burial: Lakeview Cemetery, Ithaca, New York u


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Cyrus WILSON Birth: 25 Sep 1829 in Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: 29 Jan 1902 in Clifton, Kansas
  • Mother:
  • Catharine MASON Birth: 8 Mar 1833 in South Shenango Twp, Crawford Co, Pennsylvania Death: 4 Jul 1904 in Springboro, Crawford Co, Pennsylvania

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Wendell Hatch WILSON Birth: 31 Jul 1898 in Memphis, Tennessee Death: 8 Mar 1953 in Allentown, Pennsylvania
  2. Kenneth Mason WILSON Birth: 9 Apr 1901 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Death: 9 Jul 1949 in Atlanta, Georgia

Bibliography
  1. Wilson, Peter Mason and Thomas L Yoset, Descendants of Jacob and Martha Mason, in Crawford County Genealogy vol 21 no 2, August 1998. FHL 974.897 D25cr Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Wilson MASON p[0-9]*].
  2. Wilson, Peter Mason, Descendants of Thomas and Eleanor Wilson. In Crawford County Genealogy, vol 22 no 2, Oct 1999, and vol 23 no 1 Spring 2000. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Wilson MASON p98, WilsonPM WILSON p62],
place:
[Ref: Wilson MASON p98]
Crawford Co, Pennsylvania [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p62],
parents:
[Ref: Wilson MASON p98, WilsonPM WILSON p62]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Wilson MASON p98, WilsonPM WILSON p62],
place:
[Ref: Wilson MASON p98, WilsonPM WILSON p62]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Wilson MASON p98, WilsonPM WILSON p62]
Sources with Information about marriage to Winifred Mary HATCH
date:
[Ref: Wilson MASON p98, WilsonPM WILSON p62],
place:
[Ref: Wilson MASON p98, WilsonPM WILSON p62],
child:
[Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p63]
Research Notes:
1881-5: attended Allegheny College, Meadville [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p62]

early 1890's: appointed a weather observer in the US Army Signal Corps [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p62]

chief meteorologist in Memphis, TN, and Milwaukee, WI [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p62]

1895: M.D. Memphis Hospital Medical College [Ref: Wilson MASON p98, WilsonPM WILSON p62]

Chief Meteorologist in Memphis, Tenn, and Milwaukee, Wis, before becoming Professor of Meteorology at Cornell Univeristy [Ref: Wilson MASON p98]

1906: appointed Professor of Meteorology at Cornell Univeristy [Ref: WilsonPM WILSON p62]



Pedigree of Wilford Murry WILSON
                                     /-----Thomas WILSON
                            /-----Hugh WILSON
                           |         \-----Eleanor (WILSON)
                   /-----Andrew WILSON
                  |         \-----Isabella McKEEVER
          /-----Hugh WILSON
         |        |         /-----Joseph PATTON
         |         \-----Mary PATTON
         |                  \-----Sarah WEIR
 /-----Cyrus WILSON
|        |                  /-----Henry COLLINS
|        |         /-----Isaac Wright COLLINS
|        |        |         \-----Rachel (COLLINS)
|         \-----Ann COLLINS
|                 |         /-----William BENNETT
|                  \-----Margaret BENNETT
|                           \-----Ann (BENNETT)
Wilford Murry WILSON
|                           /-----Jacob MASON
|                  /-----James MASON
|                 |         \-----Martha (MASON)
|         /-----William Bennett MASON
|        |        |         /-----Samuel BENNETT
|        |         \-----Margery BENETT
 \-----Catharine MASON
         |         /-----Samuel BARACKMAN
          \-----Martha BARACKMAN



Descendants of Wilford Murry WILSON
1. Wilford Murry WILSON m. Winifred Mary HATCH
m. Winifred Mary HATCH