A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Robert H. Wilson
"History of Saline County, Missouri", Missouri Historical Co., St. Louis, 1881, p. 609:
DR. ROBERT H. WILSON, P. O., Cambridge. Was born on Timber Ridge, Rockbridge county, Virginia, March 4, 1829, in the same house in which Gen. Sam Houston was born, and on the same day on which Gen. Jackson was inaugurated president the second time. He was the second son of David S. Wilson, of Augusta county, Virginia, who was raised to manhood, and was married to Miss Margaret Skinner, in Rockbridge county, and moved to this county when the subject of this sketch was but fifteen months old. Dr. Wilson has spent the principal part of his life in Saline county, except six years, from 1849 to 1857, which he spent in California. Dr. Wilson attended the National Medical College of Washington City, and graduated there in 1861. He is of Scotch-Irish descent. His grandfather, William Wilson, had four sons who came to the west, viz.: Gen. John Wilson, now of San Francisco, California; Robert Wilson, formerly of St. Joseph, Missouri; Col. William A. Wilson, deceased, of this county, and David S. Wilson, the doctor's father, who, with Gen. John Wilson, were soldiers of the war of 1812, and were known in the old times as old Virginia gentlemen.
"Portrait and Biographical Record of Lafayette and Saline Counties, Missouri", Chapman Bros., Chicago, 1893, pp. 326-327 (obtained from Google Books):
[First part skipped] Our subject was one of a family of eight children, five sisters and three brothers. A. G. Wilson was born in Saline County in 1837, and continues his residence here. Julia, born in Saline County in 1842, married G. A. Cannon, and with her husband resides in her native locality. One of our subject's brothers served in the Confederate army for three years under Gov. Shelby. Dr. Wilson attended the common schools of Missouri, and at ten years of age began farming upon his father's land, and until nineteen years old gave his time industriously and successfully to the duties of agriculture. His first departure from home was made to the distant State of California, where he remained six years, when on account of failing health he returned to the farm in Missouri.
After a time our subject began the study of medicine under Dr. Alexander, and afterward completed a course of study in the Nathan Medical College at Washington, where he remained two years, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1861. Immediately after receiving his diploma he began the duties of his profession, and soon enjoyed an excellent practice in Cambridge, Mo., where he remained for a full score of years. In 1880 he came to his present home in Gilliam.
Attention to his medical duties and other business of his active life have absorbed the time of Dr. Wilson, but he is nevertheless willing to aid all public measures of known value. He is a valued member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is ever ready to assist in social, benevolent or religious enterprises of his neighborhood or vicinity. Dr. Wilson is an ardent advocate of educational progress and reform. He has never aspired to official positions, nor been a politician in the wider significance of the term, but is a sturdy Democrat, his father having been a Whig. He takes a lively interest in the conduct of local and national affairs. An excellent and skillful physician, ministering to the wants of suffering humanity, he has long since won and worthily retains the confidence of the general public.
From the above biographies, it doesn't sound like he ever married. He was living with his mother and other family members in the 1850 and 1860 censuses. It appears that he was living as a boarder with a Grove family in the 1870 census and living by himself in the 1900 census.
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