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Born in New Boston, New Hampshire , Wilson attended the public schools and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire , in 1797.
He studied law in Johnstown, New York , and was admitted to the bar.
He moved to Ohio and settled in Chillicothe about 1805.
He engaged in the practice of law.
He moved to Newark, Ohio , in 1808, having been appointed chief judge of the court of common pleas, and served until 1823.

Wilson was elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses and served from March 4 , 1823 , until his death in Newark, Ohio , June 6 , 1827 .
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Nineteenth Congress).
He was interred in the Old Cemetery.
He was reinterred on March 23 , 1853 , in Cedar Hill Cemetery.


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