Degree Recipient

Biographical Details

Date of Birth: June 6, 1810

Birth Location: Vincennes, IN, USA

Graduation Year(s): 1834

Degree(s) Earned: Bachelors

Date of Death: February 3, 1876

Death Location: Logansport, IN, USA

Life Experience

Thomas Jefferson Wilson was born in Vincennes, in the Indiana Territory. He was one of seven children. An 1834 graduate of Indiana College (now IU), he was a farmer. Wilson’s father, Walter, died in 1838. His mother died in 1865. For four years, Wilson was probate judge of Cass County, Indiana. He died in 1876 in Logansport.

Marriage and Family

Wilson married Mary Ann Dodds. Their son, Samuel, was born in 1839. Their second child, Walter, born in 1854, died in infancy. Mary Ann died in 1855. In 1866, Wilson’s nephew, Alexander, a Civil War veteran, drowned in the Osage River while attempting to swim a horse across.

References

1. Wylie
2. Findagrave.com
3. Indiana American 10/13/1837
4. Daily Journal 02/04/1876
5. Helm (1886) History of Cass County, Indiana