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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 of  four children, viz.: John J., born in 1837;   Eliza A., widow of Thomas H. Clark and  born in 1841, who has seven children; Angeline, wife of Samuel B. Griffith, of Wayne County; and Joseph E. Wilson, who was born January 3, 1849. 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.: