History of Greenfield, (Highland County) Ohio United States of America

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Physician, was born near Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, January 5th, 1821, and is the third of twelve children whose parents were Adam B. and Margery (Dean) Wilson. His father was born, 1790, in Lincoln county, North Carolina, and was a farmer by occupation. He removed to Ohio in 1814, first locating at Chillicothe, and finally settled, in 1816, in Madison township, Highland county, where he resided until his death, in November, 1857. He was a soldier during the war of 1812, and was for a number of years Magistrate of Highland county. He married Margery, daughter of Abraham Dean, an early settler in Pike county, Ohio, where she was born in 1799. James attended school during the winter and assisted his father in farm-work until he was nineteen years old, when he entered the Ohio University at Athens, where he diligently studied for two years. In 1842 he returned home, and commenced reading medicine under Drs. Milton and Alexander Dunlap, of Greenfield. In the fall of 1843 he went to Cincinnati to attend the lectures at the Ohio Medical College, returning home at the close of the course. After remaining in the office there one year, he commenced practising medicine in Champaign county for fifteen months, and then took a second course in the Ohio Medical College, from which he graduated with honor in the spring of 1848. In the same year he returned to Greenfield, where he has since resided, and where he has established an extensive and remunerative practice. He is a frequent contributor to the medical literature of the day; and the essay on "Scarlatina," published among the transactions of the State Medical Society in 1852, evoked considerable attention. He is a member of the State Medical Society, and also of the Highland County Medical Society. He has never sought nor held any public office whatever. He was originally a Whig, but is now affiliated with the Republican party. For the past thirty-five years he has been a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was married, in 1846, to Elizabeth H., daughter of Hon. Hugh Smart, one of the early associate judges and legislative representatives of Highland county, Ohio; she died in 1866, having had four children. He was married, in 1868, to Margaret J. McClure (whose maiden-name was Margaret J. Brown), a native of Ross county, who is the mother of one child.

From: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.

History of Greenfield, (Highland County) Ohio

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