ISAAC WILSON was a native of Indiana, and was born in 1831. His father, Isaac Wilson, Sr., was a native of Virginia, and was one of the pioneers of this State. Our subject was reared to farming, and was educated at the frontier school of his early day. In 1860, in Iowa, he married Miss Catherine Maxwell, a native of Indiana, and a daughter of James and Sarah Maxwell, who were farming people and early settlers of Ohio. In 1833, they came to Indiana, and afterward moved to Iowa, where they ended their lives. January 17, 1880, our subject departed this life, at his home in this township, on Section 17. His widow still resides on the farm, which is one of the finest in the township. It comprises 300 acres, is well cultivated, and is adorned with two and one half miles of hedge. Mrs. Wilson has borne her husband seven children Anna, William (deceased), James (deceased), Herbert, Charles, Rose and Harry.

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