WILSON, GEORGE ROBERT: 1863-1941.
George Robert Wilson , son of Michael and Elizabeth Chilton Wilson, was born at Cannelton, Ind., on Aug. 15, 1863. Both of his parents were English. In 1868 the family moved to Dubois County, Ind., where George grew up and spent many years of his life.
When he was eleven years old, he went to work in the coal mines near Jasper, Ind., working there for four years and studying at home in his leisure time. He then taught school for nine years–during the last two serving as principal of the high school at Ireland, Ind.–and at the same time took a course in civil engineering and held the position of Dubois County surveyor. In 1889 he became superintendent of schools for Dubois County and reorganized the school system. He resigned in 1903 to become Indiana manager of the State Life Insurance Company of Indianapolis .
Mr. Wilson held the degree of bachelor of law but never practiced. He helped reorganize the Indiana Association of Life Underwriters and served as its president. He also served on many state boards. He was considered an authority on pioneer surveys in Indiana .
In 1893 he married Caroline L. Kuebler.
Information from Indiana and Indianans, Vol. III.
- History and Art Souvenir of Dubois County.
Jasper, Ind., 1896.
- Titles, Deeds and Surveys.
Indianapolis, 1897.
- Battlefields in Time of Peace.
Indianapolis, 1897.
- History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910;
Including Biographies of Capt. Toussaint Dubois and the Very Rev. Joseph
Kundeck. Jasper, Ind., 1910.
- Observations. 1914.
- Dubois County Settlement Stone.
[Indianapolis], 1919.
- The Buffalo Trail Marker. 1926.
- The Buffalo Trace (withGayle Thornbrough). Indianapolis, 1946.
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- Handbook of the Dubois County Schools.
- George H. Profft, His Day and Generation. n.p.,
n.d.
