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Robert Wilson, retired, of Ellrod, son of John and Mary Wilson, was born in County Down, Ireland in 1830, and coming to America in 1848 located in Pittsburgh, removing to Greenock in 1853, where he remained until 1883, when he came to his present residence at Ellrod, in Versailles Township. Mrs Mary Wilson, daughter of William and Isabella Black, was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1828, and came to America in 1844. The family first located in McKeesport and removed a year later to a point on the Youghiogheny river, about six miles above McKeesport. A considerable village soon grew up around them, and Mr. Black named it Greenock, that being the last town seen by him when leaving his native land. Mrs Wilson is a niece of Nelson [James Beaumont Neilson] (the inventor of the "hot blast" [furnace]), to whom a large monument has been erected in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Their children are Anna M., who is a graduate of the California State Normal School, and now a teacher at McKeesport; John G., shipping clerk at the National Tube Works, McKeesport; William F., an architect, of Pittsburgh; Martha J., now Mrs. John Pierce, of Elizabeth township; James B., a graduate of Clarion State Normal School, and Marguerite N. Mr. Wilson is a republican, and has been identified with the township in various official capacities. Both he and Mrs. Wilson are members of the M. E. Church.

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