The Osborne Family of Franklin, Pennsylvania

There were several immigrants of the family of Osborne in New Haven, Connecticut, among the early settlers. Richard Osborne came from England to Hingham, Massachusetts, and thence to New Haven; served in the Pequot war; was a tanner by trade; afterward lived at Fairfield, Connecticut, and Newtown, Long Island. John Osborne, another early settler of New Haven, removed to Fairfield with his father Richard; married Sarah Bennett and had children:

1. Samuel Osborne
2. John Osborne
3. David Osborne
4. Joseph Osborne
5. Elizabeth Osborne.

Children of Richard Osborne:

1. John Osborne
2. Elizabeth Osborne
3. Priscilla Osborne
4. Daniel Osborne.

(I) Thomas Osborne

Thomas Osborne, the pioneer ancestor of this family, from Mardstone, England, was a brother of Richard Osborne, and was also at New Haven among the early settlers. In 1650 he removed to East Hampton, Long Island. He was a landowner in East Hampton and in 1687 conveyed all his remaining lands to his son Benjamin, returned to his old home at New Haven, and died there. Jeremiah Osborne, perhaps a brother of Richard, settled in New Haven; was a tanner, like Richard; served as deputy to the general court, 1672-74; married Mary and had children:

1. Rebecca Osborne
2. Increase Osborne
3. Benjamin Osborne
4. Jeremiah Osborne
5. Mary Osborne
6. Elizabeth Osborne
7. Jeremiah Osborne
8. Joanna Osborne
9. Thomas Osborne
10. Elizabeth Osborne.

The names of the children of Richard, Jeremiah and Thomas indicate that they were brothers. Thomas was also a tanner. Children:

1. Benjamin Osborne
2. Thomas Osborne, mentioned below
3. John Osborne
4. Jeremiah Osborne.

(II) Thomas (2) Osborne

Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Osborne, was born in England in 1622, came to this country with the family and removed from New Haven, Connecticut, to East Hampton, Long Island, in New York, with his father. He died at East Hampton in 1712, aged ninety years. Among his children was:

1. Daniel Osborne, mentioned below.

(III) Daniel Osborne

Daniel, son of Thomas (2) Osborne, was born in 1666 at East Hampton, Long Island, died there January 6, 1713. His branch of the family located in the lower part of Main street, East Hampton, and from that fact came to be known in later years as the “Down Street Osbornes.” The old homestead of Daniel Osborne was owned in recent years by David E. Osborne. Daniel Osborne married Elizabeth Hedges, daughter or granddaughter of William Hedges, the immigrant ancestor of the Hedges family of New York. Children, born at East Hampton:

1. Daniel Osborne, mentioned below
2. Thomas Osborne
3. Abigail Osborne
4. Rebecca Osborne
5. Mary Osborne.

(IV) Daniel (2) Osborne

Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Osborne, was born about 1690 at East Hampton, Long Island, died there May 18, 1757. He married, June 10, 1713, Elizabeth Austin. Children:

1. Elizabeth Osborne
2. Daniel Osborne
3. Rebecca Osborne
4. Jonathan Osborne
5. Hannah Osborne
6. David Osborne, mentioned below.

(V) David Osborne

David, son of Daniel (2) Osborne, was born May 11, 1720, at East Hampton, Long Island, died December 4, 1792. He married Mary Huntting. They had five children. Their sons were:

1. Daniel Osborne
2. David Osborne, mentioned below.

(VI) David (2) Osborne

David (2), son of David (1) Osborne, was born in East Hampton, Long Island, August 22, 1761, died at Kingsbury, Washington county, New York, February 16, 1813. He married, November 20, 1788, at Amenia, Dutchess county, New York, Lucretia Harris, born in Cornwall, Litchfield county, Connecticut, July 30, 1768, died in Kingsbury, January 30, 1811. Children:

1. Cornelia Osborne, born October 2, 1789, died December 23, 1821
2. Maria Osborne, April 5, 1791, died same day
3. John Huntting Osborne, November, 1792, died August 13, 1794
4. Sophronia Lucretia Osborne, April 5, 1795, died August 3, 1830
5. Piatt Smith Osborne, mentioned below
6. Harriet Munro Osborne, April 13, 1800, died June 5, 1829
7. Harris Burnett Osborne, January 12, 1803, died in 1889
8. Morris Dickson Osborne, December 29, 1805, died July 26, 1808
9. Cynthia Ann Osborne, October 29, 1807, died February 4, 1864.

(VII) Piatt Smith Osborne

Piatt Smith, son of David (2) Osborne, was born March 26, 1798, died at Sherman, New York, April 20, 1887. He married Mary A., daughter of Nehemiah and Anna Piatt. Children, born at Ripley, New York:

1. Sophia Lucretia Osborne, born June 14, 1829, married Dr. Graves
2. David Cuvier Osborne, mentioned below
3. Piatt Smith Osborne Jr., April 27, 1834
4. Harriet Osborne, January 20, 1836, married Samuel P. McCalmont (see McCalmont V)
5. Cynthia Ann Osborne, April 3, 1838, married Dr. Samuel McNair
6. Isadore Osborne, December 12, 1839
7. Harris Burnett Osborne, August 11, 1841
8. Samuel Whitehall Osborne, February 10, 1843
9. Mary Ann Osborne, July 15, 1845, married Stephen Benedict.

(VIII) Rev. David Cuvier Osborne

Rev. David Cuvier Osborne, son of Piatt Smith and Mary A. (Piatt) Osborne, was born at Ripley, Chautauqua county, New York, August 3, 1830, died at Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 26, 1912. His father, a tanner by trade, was one of the pioneers of New York state, having taken up his farm from the government in 1820. Their home was the simple, God-fearing home of industrial people of that day. David C. gave early evidence of an active mind and had made such good use of the school privileges in the public school and at the Westfield Academy that, at the age of sixteen, he taught the village school at Sherman, where the family was living at that time. The Osborne family were naturally musicians, and David C. was specially endowed with musical gifts. He spent two years in New York City studying music under the best instructors of that time, and later taught music, both vocal and instrumental. He spent two and one-half years in the study of law in the office of Hon. Abner Lewis in Panama, New York. On New Year’s Eve, 1850, while attending evangelistic services he became a Christian and soon thereafter united with the Methodist Episcopal church. His persuasive speech, even at that time, led many of his friends to say that the Gospel ministry would be his life’s work. In 1853 he was admitted, not to the bar to practice law, but to the Erie conference to preach the Gospel. Thus began the active ministry of one of the foremost Methodist pastors of the Middle West. He was noted for his work among the young people, it being one of his principles that they should share largely in his responsibility of the church’s activity. He kept the spirit of eternal youth in his soul and never grew old. He was noted for the attention he gave to church music. He organized and drilled church choirs and installed pipe organs in many of the churches which he served. He perhaps was still more widely known for the church building enterprises which he conducted. In this connection mention should be made of the First Church, Akron, Ohio, which was the original “Akron Plan” church. This plan was the result of long hours of thought on the part of Dr. Osborne, the pastor, of Louis Miller, the superintendent of the Sunday school, and financier of the enterprise, and of Jacob Snyder, the architect. The pastor’s study was the place where most frequently this trio met to compare their ideas. The Akron Plan was one of the fruits of an earnest soul who wanted to see the best sort of a building constructed for Sunday school and church social activities. Dr. Osborne served as pastor of the Methodist church at Randolph, 1853; Wattsburg, 1854; Dunkirk, 1855-56; Warren, 1857; Franklin, 1858-59; New Castle, 1860-61; Erie, First Church, 1862-64; Akron, 1865-67; Cleveland, Erie Street, 1868-70; Titusville, 1871-72; Cleveland district, as superintendent, 1873-76; Steubenville Kramer Church, 1877-78; Massillon, 1879-80; Canton, First Church, 1881-83; Youngstown, First Church, 1884-86; Painesville, 1887-89; Conneaut, 1890-92; Barnesville district as superintendent, 1893-98; Niles, 1899-1900; Madison, 1901; superannuated, 1902, moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. While living there he supplied the pulpit at Comstock, Michigan, in 1904-07. Dr. Osborne was one of those with whom Dr. John H. Vincent took counsel in the founding of the Chautauqua movement; and he took an active part in the planning and conducting of the Chautauqua Assemblies. While on the Barnesville district, 1893-98, he was superintendent of instruction in Epworth Park Assembly of Bethesda, Ohio, and those who appeared on the program of that assembly in those years were guests in his cottage. With all his genius in the conduct of large church enterprises he was intensely evangelistic, and very many prominent and useful laymen were converted under his ministry, among them William A. McKinley, who afterward became president of the United States.

He was married to Arvilla Maria Hill, eldest daughter of the Rev. Bryan S. and Mary E. (Sanborn) Hill, October 23, 1856. Children:

1. Bryan Hill Osborne, mentioned below
2. David Winthrop Osborne, born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1861
3. Cyrus Clarke Osborne, born at Akron, Ohio, October 19, 1865
4. Mary Osborne, born at Cleveland, Ohio, September 21, 1869
5. Donald Piatt Osborne, born at Steubenville, Ohio, October 28, 1878.

Arvilla Maria (Hill) Osborne, wife of Rev. David Cuvier Osborne, was born December 29, 1837. She was a daughter of Rev. Bryan S. and Mary E. Sanborn Hill. The children of Rev. Bryan S. and Mary E. (Sanborn) Hill are as follows:

1. Arvilla Maria Hill, mentioned above.
2. Robert Allen Hill, born March 23, 1839, died April 29, 1858.
3. Mary E. Hill, born October 3, 1840, died April 23, 1859.
4. Adeline Hill, born August 20, 1842; married, November 17, 1864, George M. Permer.
5. Julia Hill, born December 20, 1844; married, October 26, 1865, Daniel B. Foote.
6. Emily Hill, born January 17, 1847; married, September 3, 1870, Dr. S. F. Chapin.
7. Stella Hill, born June 8, 1849.
8. Eva Marila Hill, born February 12, 1852; married, June 28, 1881, John C. Compton.
9. Moses Simpson Hill, born February 18, 1854, died October 1, 1857.
10. John Sanborn Hill, born July 26, 1856, died July 16, 1886; married, November 9, 1881, Minnie H. Fritts.
11. Johanna Stewart Hill, born July 26, 1856, died April 28, 1899; married (first) June 28, 1882, Joseph R. Allen, (second) January, 1892, George Sammons.

(IX) Bryan Hill Osborne

Bryan Hill, son of Rev. David Cuvier Osborne, was born at Franklin, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1858. He attended the public school of his native town and the high school at Cleveland, Ohio, where he fitted for college. He entered Ohio Wesleyan University, class of 1880, but did not graduate. He began to study his profession in the law office of McCalmont & Osborne at Franklin, and in 1881 was admitted to the bar. He immediately entered upon the practice of law and has continued to the present time with office at Franklin. In his profession he has attained high distinction. He has also been honored with various offices of trust in the city. For several terms he was a member of the city council, and in 1896 he was mayor of the city. In 1903, 1905 and 1906 he represented his district in the state legislature. In politics he is a Republican. He is also a trustee of the State Hospital for the Insane at Warren, Pennsylvania; president of the board of trustees of the Franklin Hospital; director of the First National Bank of Franklin and of the Union Heat and Light Company, S. T. Karns Sons Company; secretary and director of the West End Water Company, and other companies. In religion he is an Episcopalian and for some years has been vestryman of St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church of Franklin. He is financially interested in various other enterprises in this vicinity and has lent his aid in cooperation in many projects appealing to the men of public spirit in this city.

He married, December 11, 1889, Stella M., daughter of Forster W. and Laura M. (Wilson) Mitchell (see Mitchell III). They have one child:

1. Geraldine Osborne, born at Franklin, Pennsylvania.

The Mitchell Line

(I) Rev. David Mitchell

Rev. David Mitchell was a native of the north of Ireland, of old Scotch stock. He settled in Center county, Pennsylvania, and for many years was a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal denomination in that state. He had sons:

1. Thomas Mitchell, mentioned below
2. James Mitchell.

(II) Thomas Mitchell

Thomas, son of Rev. David Mitchell, was born near Bellefonte, Center county, Pennsylvania, about 1800, died in 1870, in Ashtabula, Ohio, whither he had removed. By trade he was a blacksmith. In April, 1836, he settled on a farm in Alleghany township near Pleasantville, Venango county, Pennsylvania, and in addition to the management of his farm he conducted a general store. He married (first) Eliza Lamb, who died in 1851. He married (second) Jane Weir. Children:

1. David H. Mitchell, of Titusville
2. John L. Mitchell, born April 10, 1826, married, February 21, 1867, Hattie R. Raymond
3. Forster W. Mitchell, mentioned below
4. Sarah Jane Mitchell, married Judge James L. Connely, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
5. Martha Mitchell, married L. T. Lamberton, of Franklin, Pennsylvania
6. Melvina Mitchell
7. Minerva E. Mitchell, married Alexander W. Brown, of Pleasantville
8. William Mitchell
9. Charles R. Mitchell
10. Mary J. Mitchell

(III) Forster W. Mitchell

Forster W., son of Thomas Mitchell, was born near Millhall, Center county, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1828. He came with his parents to Venango county when a boy of eight years and was raised on his father’s farm at Pleasantville. Forster W. passed his youth and early manhood on the farm, at the same time familiarizing himself with lumbering and mercantile methods. The strenuous school of his earlier life developed the self command, perseverance and courage that were inherent in his disposition, and to these qualities he unfailingly united throughout life the traits that dominated his strong and high character—candor, fidelity to trust and duty—those old fashioned virtues for which, as time goes on, the world is likely to have as much need as ever. In March, 1865, Mr. Mitchell removed to Franklin, which was thenceforth the family home.

Mr. Mitchell was engaged in lumbering and merchandising at Enterprise, Pennsylvania, in 1859, when Colonel Drake struck his well, and was one of the earliest to view the fifteen barrel wonder. Without any delay he secured a lease on a portion of the Buchannan farm on the bank of Oil Creek, and began drilling by the primitive and laborious spring pole method, a well said to be the third to be completed after the Drake venture. It was a success and started at seventy-five barrels per day and flowed for more than six months. From the time of that initial venture until the recent past Mr. Mitchell was an extensive and successful operator for oil. He purchased and developed the Shaw farm near Rouseville; was interested in the Bullion field when in company with John H. Lee and Hon. W. R. Crawford he owned the “Big Injun,” a well that made the high record for the district, flowing over 3,000 barrels, June 18, 1877. Mr. Mitchell was also profitably interested in the Bradford oil field in company with Captain J. T. Jones, of Buffalo, New York, and the late George H. Van Vleck, of Toledo, Ohio.

At all times Mr. Mitchell took every means and occasion to conserve or advance the interests of those engaged in the various activities of the oil industry. Being gifted with the initiative faculty, the discernment of what to do and how to do it, he was able to render practical and effective services in times of stress and danger. In the period of haphazard methods and wild fluctuations he was a pillar of strength. He took an active part in all public movements of the producers. In the days of the oil exchange was a heavy operator in the market. The advance in the price of crude oil from 60 cents to $1.27, in 1880, was known as “Mitchell’s boom.”

While managing his extensive oil interests, Mr. Mitchell at the same time carried on a banking business, in which he was long and successfully engaged. In 1870 he opened a bank at Rouseville with F. H. Steel, now of Toledo, Ohio. In 1873 the business was removed to Oil City, where for over twenty years the firm of F. W. Mitchell & Company was prominent in finance, the company being composed of F. W. Mitchell, F. H. Steel and George V. Forman, the latter giving place in 1882 to W. H. Wise, of Oil City. The banking business was discontinued in 1894 and he retired from active labor. In 1875 he was appointed by Governor Hartranft one of the Centennial Commission of Pennsylvania, and served as treasurer of the board during the historic event of the Exposition.

From the time he took up his residence in Franklin, forty-seven years ago, Mr. Mitchell has devoted largely of his means and energies to the material progress of Franklin and vicinity, and was recognized as one of the leaders of public spirit in this part of the state. Among his benefactions to this community were the lots on which the City Building and the Opera House are erected.

May 17, 1850, Mr. Mitchell was married to Laura M. Wilson, daughter of Alonzo and Lucy (Rowe) Wilson (see Wilson VI), and took up his residence in the village of Enterprise, Warren county, Pennsylvania. She died in 1907. Three children were born to them:

1. Herbert W. Mitchell, who died in his youth
2. Lottie M. Mitchell, of Paris, France, who married Dilworth Richardson, of Cincinnati, Ohio, deceased
3. Stella M. Mitchell, wife of Bryan H. Osborne, of Franklin (see Osborne IX).

In his home Mr. Mitchell was a charming host, given to genuine hospitality, always with “holiday in his eye,” his conversation at times spiced with anecdotal wit and humor. He was fond of diversions. As late as the 7th of May, 1912, when his daughter, Mrs. Osborne, entertained some of his intimate old friends at a dinner in honor of his eighty-fourth birthday, he closed the festivities by engaging them in the customary bout at whist or euchre.

A striking characteristic of Mr. Mitchell was his faculty of friendship, which he possessed in rare degree. He was happy in his friends, and his loyalty to them, whatever their position or circumstances, was steadfast and lasting. In his choice of them he exercised his keen and correct understanding of men, arising from his ability to look through material possessions, through differences of taste and station, and see the genuine man that abides within. Those friends must with pleasure recall him in the latter years of his long and busy life, the cordial, courteous, alert veteran, of handsome presence, who radiated health and good will and lent a charm to old age.

While retentive of the old time associations and memories, he did not live in the past, but kept in close touch with the present, moving along with the modern march, alive to the pressing questions of the day, interested in men, matters and events. Carrying these habits and qualities into a dignified and serene old age, he was spared the gloom that so often couples long life with decay and settles over it the sense of being helpless and alone. His later years, it is true, were not without sorrows and disappointments, but he resolutely met them with drafts upon his fund of “cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows.”

The death of Forster W. Mitchell, for nearly half a century a prominent and honored citizen of Franklin, occurred December 15, 1912, at his apartments in the Exchange Hotel. The event followed an invalidism of about four years, during which his fine constitution gradually yielded to ailments of a rheumatic nature. He was clear in mind and serene in spirit to the end.

It is more than a mere formality of phrase to say that in the passing of Mr. Mitchell from life our city suffers a loss that is felt and acknowledged; for a prosperous man, who obtains his wealth honestly and uses it rightly, is a blessing to the community. Such a man was the one whose departure is now mourned.

The remains of Mr. Mitchell will repose with those of his wife in the family mausoleum in the Franklin Cemetery. But a more desirable monument to his memory already stands erected in the honor and respect of the many who knew him well, and the love of the few who knew him best.

The Wilson Line

No less than twelve pioneers of the Wilson family came to Massachusetts before 1650 and their descendants have been very numerous. Nathaniel Wilson came early to Roxbury and was a planter in that town and at Brookline. In 1647 he gave a power of attorney to John Wilson, of Halifax, Yorkshire, England, clothworker, to collect a legacy left him by Nathaniel Holgate, of Halifax, deceased. He sold his house in Roxbury, February 16, 1652. He married, April 2, 1645, Hannah, daughter of Griffin Crafts. Children:

1. Hannah Wilson, baptized May 2, 1647
2. Nathaniel Wilson, baptized April 30 or May 2, 1653
3. Joseph Wilson, baptized January 31 or February 12, 1655
4. Benjamin Wilson, baptized January 31 or February 12, 1655
5. Isaac Wilson, born August 24, 1658
6. Mary Wilson, born May 2, 1661, recorded in Boston
7. Abigail Wilson, baptized April 10, 1664
8. Samuel Wilson, June 10, 1666.

(I) John Wilson

John Wilson, a relative of Nathaniel Wilson, and perhaps the John mentioned in the power of attorney, presumably a brother, settled after 1650 in Woburn, Massachusetts. The names Nathaniel, Benjamin, Hannah, are common to the descendants of both to an unusual extent. Children:

1. John Wilson
2. Dorcas Wilson
3. Francis Wilson, born in England, married, March 6, 1683, Ruth Duntlen at Woburn, and she died at Rehoboth in 1700, he died August, 1724, at Rehoboth.
4. Samuel Wilson, December 29, 1658. Born at Woburn.
5. Abigail Wilson, August 8, 1666 (Born at Woburn.)
6. Elizabeth Wilson, August 6, 1668 (Born at Woburn.)
7. Benjamin Wilson, mentioned below (Born at Woburn.)
8. Hannah Wilson, May 31, 1672 (Born at Woburn.)
9. John Wilson, January 3, 1674 (Born at Woburn.)
10. Hannah Wilson, December 28, 1675 (Born at Woburn.)
11. Hannah Wilson, March 11, 1677 (Born at Woburn.)
12. Susanna Wilson, March 11, 1679. (Born at Woburn.)

(II) Benjamin Wilson

Benjamin, son of John Wilson, was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, October 15, 1670. With others of the family he removed to Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth. Children, born at Rehoboth:

1. Benjamin Wilson, mentioned below
2. Jonathan Wilson, December 8, 1698
3. Rebecca Wilson, January 20, 1701
4. Hannah Wilson, October 7, 1702
5. Francis Wilson, September 7, 1704
6. Elizabeth Wilson, July 8, 1706
7. Samuel Wilson, January 5, 1707-08
8. Ruth Wilson, April 7, 1710
9. Bethia Wilson, December 4, 1711
10. Abigail Wilson, August 30, 1713
11. Mary Wilson, October 17, 1714.

(III) Benjamin (2) Wilson

Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) Wilson, also lived at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Jr., died July 10, 1731. He married at Rehoboth, December 15, 1730, Elizabeth Sprague. He must have had a first and third wife also named Elizabeth, unless there were two of the same name at the same time in Rehoboth. But after 1730 there is no positive indication of more than one Benjamin (1730-46), except that the record of birth of Nathaniel states that his father Benjamin was of England. That may mean that the father was then absent in England. The children credited to Benjamin and Elizabeth at Rehoboth are:

1. Sarah Wilson, born February 23, 1729-30
2. John Wilson
3. Nathaniel Wilson, mentioned below
4. Lucas Wilson, August 10, 1735
5. Ammi Wilson, April 26, 1737
6. Benjamin Wilson, April 11, 1739
7. Jonathan Wilson, April 7, 1741
8. Ezekiel Wilson, May 11, 1744
9. Chloe Wilson, June 23, 1746.

(IV) Nathaniel Wilson

Nathaniel, son of Benjamin (2) and Elizabeth Wilson, was born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, June 10, 1733. The history of West Stockbridge says he was a native of England, but the records of Rehoboth, given above, seem to prove that he was born in Rehoboth. This history says he came from Rehoboth, lived in Canada and in Richmond near the Stockbridge line. He served in the French and Indian war in Canada, at which time his life is romantically said to have been saved by a spider’s web. “Pursued by Indians he took refuge in a hollow log which being observed the following morning by his pursuers with a spider’s web across the end, was supposed to be vacant, they remarking ‘no white man there, cause spider’s web'” and he was unmolested. He married twice and had twenty-one children. He married, at Rehoboth, June 10, 1756, Jemima Turner (married by Elder Richard Rounds). Children (the first five recorded at Rehoboth):

1. Huldah Wilson, born June 30, 1757
2. Sarah Wilson, October 17, 1759
3. Philanda Wilson, June 30, 1761
4. Shubael Wilson, April 8, 1763
5. Nathaniel Wilson, June 24, 1773.
6. Rufus Wilson, the youngest, came at the age of six to Stockbridge and succeeded to the farm lately owned by John G. Wilson. Rufus Wilson built a saw mill and grist mill about the close of the revolution on the site occupied later by a mill built by John G. Wilson at West Stockbridge.

The history of Stockbridge says that about the close of the revolution the following Wilsons with their mother went with others to the Chenango Purchase, New York:

1. Elisha Wilson
2. Peter Wilson
3. Mary Wilson
4. Phebe Wilson
5. Mehitable Wilson.

In 1790 there were living at Stockbridge, according to the first federal census, Elnathan at West Stockbridge, Mary at Stockbridge, and Farron, mentioned below. None of the family was at Springfield, Massachusetts.

(V) Farron Wilson

Farron, son of Nathaniel Wilson, was born before 1770, probably at Rehoboth. An effort has been made to find the family name from which Farron was taken. In 1790 Farron Wilson was living at Stockbridge, and had in his family his wife and one son under sixteen. He had children:

1. Laura Wilson, who married Umstead Allen, and they resided in Springfield, Massachusetts.
2. Uriah Wilson; one of two sons, Uriah and William.
3. William Wilson, the latter of the two sons, a Presbyterian minister.
4. Elizabeth Wilson, who married a Mr. Tremaine, and they also resided in Springfield.

(VI) Alonzo Wilson

Alonzo, son of Farron Wilson, was born as early as 1800, died about 1850. He removed from Springfield, Massachusetts, about 1834, to Silvercreek, New York, and afterward to the town of Enterprise, Warren county, Pennsylvania. He married Lucy Rowe. Children:

1. Laura M. Wilson, married, May 17, 1850, Forster W. Mitchell (see Mitchell III)
2. Delia Wilson, married David H. Mitchell and had children:
   1. Alonzo Mitchell, died in infancy
   2. Claude Mitchell
   3. Frank Mitchell
   4. Frederick Mitchell
   5. Jessie Mitchell
   6. Antoinette Mitchell
   7. Oscar Mitchell.

See: Genealogy of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania

Source

Jordan, J. W. 1840-1921. (1913). Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.

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