Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson, Farmer and Teacher; P. O., Hardin, Ohio.
Mr. Wilson is a son of Jesse and Abigail Wilson, who were pioneers of Washington Township. He was born in Shelby County, two miles south of Hardin, March 2, 1832. He was educated in the common schools of his native township, and in the schools at Sidney. In 1850, he began teaching school, and has since made teaching his profession, teaching at least five or six months during the winter season of each year, excepting four winters, during which time he was engaged in the mercantile business at Hardin Station. In 1860 he began dealing in general merchandise at Hardin Station, also acting as ticket, express, and freight agent for the C. C. C. and I. R. R., and filled the office of postmaster. In 1867 he retired from the mercantile business, and moved to land in the northeast quarter of section 30, in Turtle Creek Township. He has since then made other purchases of land, until he now owns two hundred acres in the same section. February 11, 1858, he married Miss Mary A. Harrison, daughter of Isaac and Isabella Harrison, then a resident of Perry Township, Shelby County, but a native of Montgomery County, Ohio, where she was born November 11, 1838. By this union he has ten children, four sons and six daughters. Mr. Wilson filled the office of clerk for Turtle Creek Township two years.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883