Ohio County, West Virginia  Biography of Andrew Wilson.

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HON. ANDREW WILSON

His grandfather, Alexander Wilson, migrated to Brooke county, 
Virginia, a short time before the revolution.  He died in 1813, at 
the age of ninety-two.  Of four children, Samuel was the youngest; he 
died in 1839, at the age of seventy-five.  His wife was Mary 
Patterson, a daughter of James Patterson.  Their children were viz: 
Samuel, John, Jane Andrew, Eliza, and Narcissa;  only three are yet 
living.  Andrew Wilson was born in the old Wilson homestead, near 
Waugh's mill, three miles from Wellsburgh, in 1810.  His advantages 
for obtaining an education were extremely limited.  He remained at 
home till of age and assisted in supporting the family.  He served an 
apprenticeship as a mill-wright, but never labored at the trade.  The 
river had charms for him and from that time till 1837 he was engaged 
in flatboating and steamboating.  He then removed to Jackson county, 
Virginia, and for some years was associated with the lumber and 
flouring mill business.  We next find him in Wheeling engaged in the 
manufacture of lumber and the building of steamboats.  He continued 
in this avocation till the close of the late war.  He was in the 
convention which organized the State of West Virginia.  He has served 
several terms in the State Senate and House of Delegates, and has 
been elected (October, 1878,) for another term to the latter body.  
He is the president of the Citizen's Railway company, president of an 
insurance company, and is intimately connected with the commercial 
and manufacturing interests of this section.  He was married in 1838 
to Mary Patterson, a daughter of Robert Patterson.  She died in 1843.  
Their only child, Robert Patterson Wilson, was born in 1839.  He died 
in 1877.  He was a major in the regular army, and in command of Fort 
Richardson, Texas, at the time of his decease.  His death was 
occasioned by the bursting of a gun.  Our subject was again married 
in 1854 to Elizabeth Updegraff, daughter of Israel and Mary ann 
Updegraff.  Of their six children, four are living.

From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, 
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle.  

Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.