Genealogy and Family History Publications
About William Armour Wilson
From Niagara County, page 710:
For a number of years, William Armour Wilson "was an extensive market gardener, with a farm on Rensselaer Island, in the Hudson River, near Albany, and there had a prosperous business and high standing in business circles of his community. In 1838 he came to the town of Wilson on a visit to his brother, who had located on the farm now owned by Mr. Duxbury, and became favorably impressed with this country. Returning to his eastern home, in 1840, he married Lamira Tappen, and shortly thereafter brought his bride by horse and buggy from Albany to the town of Wilson, where he settled on the farm on Maple street [formerly known as Slash Road] known as the Dan Carter farm. Mr. Wilson prospered in this community as he had in his former home, and at the time of his death had accumulated, through industry and good management, a farm of 135 acres on the Slash road, another of fifty-three acres on the Beebe road and one of 160 acres in the state of Illinois."