JOSEPH E. WILSON .County Clerk, Fairfield, is a son of Alfred and Elizabeth Wilson, well known residents of Wayne County.
Alfred Wilson was born in Kentucky, on the 22d of February, 1806, going from his native State, to Missouri, when a young man . There, in 1836, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Laughlin, who was born in Missouri April 6, 1819. In 1839, they came to Wayne County, Ill., and. settled where the widow still lives, in Hickory Hill Township.
Alfred Wilson was a successful farmer, a man of. strong force of character and in politics, an Old-Line Whig during the existence of that party, after which his influence was given to Democracy. He was by trade a carpenter, by. profession a Baptist minister, and died in Wayne County, Ill., December 12, 1875. He had a family off four children, viz.:
He was reared on the farm, receiving the advantages of a common school education, and by application qualified himself for the profession of teaching, which, in connection with farming, he followed from 1871 until 1882. In the fall of 1882, he was elected to the office of County Clerk of Wayne County, on the Democratic ticket.
He is a member of the Hickory Hill Lodge, No. 759, A., F. & A. M; Fairfield Chapter, No. 179, R. A. V.
He was married in Louisville, Clay County, Ill., October 11, 1876, to Miss Julia V. Galbraith, daughter. of Col. A. T. Galbraith, now of Flora, Ill. She was born in Wayne County October 23, 1857. Their two children - Edgar A. and Robert A. Wilson, were each born in Wayne County, the first, March 21, 1879, and the latter January 31, 1881.
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