The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 439

THOMAS H. WILSON.

Thomas H. Wilson, engaged in law practice in Yakima, was born in Jackson county,
Illinois, on the 11th of August, 1865. His parents were Robert and Sarah E.
(Rolens) Wilson, the latter a native of Ohio, while the former was born in
Liverpool, England, and was of Irish parentage, being a son of Thomas and
Rebecca (Armstrong) Wilson. The latter was a daughter of Captain Armstrong.
Thomas Wilson, removing to the middle west, settled in Quincy, Illinois, about
1842, casting in his lot with the pioneer residents of that section of the
state. His son, Robert Wilson, was noted as an athlete when a young man. He
became a coal miner at Murphysboro, Illinois, and there engaged in the business
for more than a half century. He has now departed this life but is survived by
his widow.

Thomas H. Wilson of this review obtained a public school education in his native
state and supplemented it by a course of study in the Valparaiso college, in
which he prepared for the bar. He was graduated on the completion of the law
course as a member of the class of 1890 and seeking the opportunities of the
growing northwest, he made his way to Washington. For a time he practiced at
Olympia and later maintained a law office in Portland. He also practiced at
other points in the northwest and went to northern Idaho, where he remained for
ten years, serving during that period as prosecuting attorney of Kootenai
county, Idaho. In 1908 he arrived in Yakima, where he has since remained, and
during the intervening decade he has become well established as an able
representative of the Yakima bar. He belongs to the County Bar Association. He
has not specialized along a single line but has continued in the general
practice of law and has ever recognized the necessity for thorough preparation
of his cases. He has closely studied every point bearing upon his cause and he
presents his case with a clearness and force that enables judge or jury not only
to recognize the strong points but his every fine gradation of meaning.

Un the 15th of April, 1902, Mr. Wilson was married to Miss Aletha Barr, of Des
Moines, Iowa, and they have one son, Wendell Thomas, now thirteen years of age.
Mr. Wilson belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and has served as
its chaplain for the past two years. He is also a member of Yakima Lodge No. 24,
F. & A. M., and of the Modern Woodmen of America, while along strictly
professional lines his connection is with the County Bar Association. In
politics he is a republican, interested in the questions and issues of the day
but not an office seeker. Those who know him, and he now has a wide acquaintance
in Yakima, esteem him highly as a man of genuine worth and ability and the bar
numbers him among its able representatives.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.