- A. O. WILSON, editor of the Janesville Recorder, was born
in Bradford, Penobscot Co., Me.,
- and was reared on his father's farm. He was educated in the
common schools, and at Hampden Academy, leaving that institution
in the fall of 1864, to strike out for himself. In December,
1866, he went to Minneapolis, Minn., but subsequently settled
in Janesville, where he has resided since August, 1867. He studied
law with the Hon. H. A. PATTERSON, the present municipal Judge,
and was admitted to the bar in 1870 before Judge William P. LYON.
Soon after this event he entered upon the publication of the
Janesville City Times, continuing the same until the spring of
1886, when the Times and the Recorder were merged.
- In politics Mr. WILSON has been a consistent Democrat all
his life. He was the democratic
- candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court against the late
A. W. BALDWIN, when that gentleman was first elected, in 1868.
Subsequently he ran for Police Justice of the city, but was defeated
by William Smith, Esq. Although always active in politics, he
has never sought nor held a political office except Postmaster
of the Wisconsin Assembly during the session of 1874. He has,
however, held the office of School Commissioner for eight years
consecutively, and is now a member of the Board of Education,
was clerk of the board two years, in 1885-86, and was re-elected
to the clerkship in the spring of 1889.
- Mr. WILSON has been the political editor of the Janesville
Daily and Weekly Recorder for the
- past three years. He was married in August, 1879, to Miss
Lizzie BLINN, or Orwell, Ohio, they have one child, a daughter.
-
- Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of
Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 766.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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