Alexander Wilson

~ALEXANDER WILSON~

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FATHER WILSON WAS BORN IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY: CAME TO THIS COUNTY IN 1801 AND SETTLED ON LICKING CREEK NEAR CURLLSVILLE, LIVED THREE MONTHS AMONG THE INDIANS WITHOUT SEEING A WHITE MAN: WAS FRIENDLY WITH TURKEY JOHN THE GIANT INDIAN, GREAT HUNTER OF THAT DAY. REMOVED TO CLARION RIVER, BUILT THE FIRST GRISTMILL NEAR CALLENSBURG. HE BLAZED A ROAD FROM CALLENSBURG THROUGH THE WOODS TO CURLLSVILLE AND CONVEYED ROB'T McYARRAH BACK TO CONCORD CHURCH, WHO PREACHED THE FIRST SERMON THERE. IN 1857 HE MOVED TO THE WEST, REMAINED 6 OR 7 YEARS: RETURNED TO CLARION COUNTY WHERE HE DIED IN 1878

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