"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon." Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 1342. J. H. WILSON is engaged in the practice of law in Corvallis. He was born August 31, 1863, in the city which is still his home, and is a son of Bushrod and Priscilla Wilson, whose sketch is given elsewhere. He obtained his education in the public schools, where he pursued his studies for a few years and then spent a year in the old Corvallis College. He is, however, largely a self-educated man and while he is today regarded as a gentleman of scholarly attainments and broad intellectuality, he owes this reputation to what he has accomplished for himself. In early life he entered the civil engineering department of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company and was connected with the construction department until the road was completed, covering a period of about five years. He then entered the, office of the county clerk, serving as deputy under his father for six years. From his boyhood he was interested in the study of law and he read to a greater or less extent while engaged in railroad work and in his clerical duties in the office of county clerk, his reading being directed by Colonel Kelsay. As the years passed, his knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence was thus broadened and, having been admitted to the bar about October, 1892, he began practice in Corvallis, where he has since maintained his law office. A distinctively representative clientele is now accorded him, and he has been connected with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of his district during the past decade. Mr. Wilson was married in Corvallis to Miss Effie M. Handy, who was born in Afton, N. Y. Her mother died in the Empire state, but the father, Arden K. Handy, removed with the family to Oregon and died in this state in 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson now have two small children. Mr. Wilson was made a Mason in Corvallis Lodge, No. 14, F. & A. M., of which he is now a past master. He is also a past high priest of Ferguson Chapter, No. 5, R. A. M., and is connected with the Eastern Star, Woodmen of the World, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In politics he has always been a Republican and he is a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he served as elder for twelve years. He prepares his cases with great fairness and precision, has a mind strongly analytical and in argument he is forceful, his deductions following in logical sequence. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.