Joseph Ruggles Wilson
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| Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Sr. | |
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| Born | February 28, 1822 Steubenville, Ohio |
| Died | January 21, 1903 (aged 80) Princeton, New Jersey |
| Education | Jefferson College Princeton Theological Seminary |
| Children | Woodrow Wilson Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Jr. |
| Church | Presbyterian |
Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Sr. (February 28, 1822 – January 21, 1903)[1] was a prominent Presbyterian theologian and father of President Woodrow Wilson and of Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Jr..[2]
[edit] Biography
Wilson graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (now Washington & Jefferson College) in 1844.[3] He taught belles-lettres at Washington & Jefferson.[4] Wilson was later employed as a Professor at Hampden-Sydney College and left the school just before the birth of his son, Thomas Woodrow Wilson in Staunton, Virginia. In late 1857 after performing the wedding of his brother-in-law, James Woodrow, he moved his family on the week of Thomas' birthday to Augusta, Georgia. [1]
He died in 1903.
[edit] Children
- Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924), US President
- Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Jr. (1866-?), an editor of the Nashville Banner
- Anne E. Wilson Howe [5]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/timeline/ImageDisplay.asp?ID=23
- ^ Dodd, William Edward (1920). Woodrow Wilson and his Work. Doubleday, Page & Company. p. 3. http://books.google.com/books?id=YhYFAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA3,M1.
- ^ "Jefferson College 1802-1865". U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives. Washington & Jefferson College. Archived from the original on 2009-05-01. http://www.webcitation.org/5gTM5E5PT.
- ^ "President Wilson At His Sister .At Close Of Service He Places Flowers...". The Star and Sentinel. September 19, 1916. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=69QlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=V_QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3478,6425626&dq=joseph+ruggles+wilson&hl=en. Retrieved 2010-10-06. "The plot in which the remains were interred is also the resting place of her husband and Joseph Ruggles Wilson and wife, father and mother of the family. ..."
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