Marion married Lena and they were the parents of Albert, Cesear, and Howard Wilson.
Info received from Amanda Fox.
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Marion Wilson is known as one of the leading ranchmen of Gem county. He has a wide acquaintance and those who are familiar with his career speak of him in terms of warm regard, for he has accomplished much and accomplished it along well defined lines of industry and integrity. He is today the owner of an excellent property of three hundred and sixty acres devoted to the raising of hay, grain and live stock, his ranch being situated six miles southwest of Emmett. Mr. Wilson is a native son of Missouri, his birth having occurred near Maryville on the 19th of November, 1861 (Nov. 30, 1860 per Idaho Death Index), his parents being Albert and Martha L. (Martin) Wilson, who came to Idaho about forty-six years ago. The mother is still living in Boise at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, making her home with a daughter, Mrs. Mary M. Lehew.
Marion Wilson was but a small child when his parents removed from Missouri to Iowa and thence came to Idaho with the family in 1874. He has lived in what is now Gem county and in the Upper Payette valley in the vicinity of Emmett throughout all the intervening years, covering more than forty-five years, and throughout the entire period has devoted his life to ranching and the raising of live stock. He is now classed with the best known and leading ranchmen of Gem county, having won substantial success as the years have passed. His ranch is six miles southwest of Emmett and is a very valuable and productive tract of land comprising three hundred and sixty acres, the soil being so rich that it responds most readily to the care and labor bestowed upon it. Mr. Wilson homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres and preempted one hundred and sixty acres and he also obtained a timber claim of eighty acres, all the property adjoining. This made him owner of four hundred acres, but he has since sold forty acres of the preemption tract, which he had obtained from the government in the '80s. Every modern convenience, equipment and improvement has been placed thereon until his ranch is one of the fine properties of this section of the state. Upon the place is a Lombardy poplar grove which he planted over a third of a century ago, and the trees are now tall and straight and present a wonderful and beautiful sight as they pierce the blue of heaven like arrows of green.
On the 17th of June, 1903, Mr. Wilson was married at Nampa, Idaho, to Miss Lena Dressel, who was born at Seward, Nebraska, July 17, 1880, a daughter of Jacob C. and Johanna (Rost) Dressel, with whom she came to Idaho in 1900 from Kansas, where the family had lived after leaving Nebraska. Mrs. Wilson is a highly educated and cultured lady and formerly taught school prior to her marriage. She has become the mother of three sons: Albert Dressel, born June 26, 1904; Edgar Marion, December 2, 1906; and Robert Howard, October 1, 1909. The youngest and the only daughter of the family, Edna Catherine, was born October 26, 1914, and died August 31, 1916, bringing great grief to the household.
Mr. Wilson votes with the democratic party and served as county commissioner of Gem county for the years 1917 and 1918. He has lived in the three different counties of Ada, Canyon and Gem, yet all at the same place, owing to the changes in county divisional boundaries. He is a member of the Gem County Drainage District No. 1, has served on the school board of the South Slope school, which is near his home, for a period of eight years and is a stalwart champion of the cause of education, doing everything in his power to advance the standard of the schools and promote their efficiency in the work of preparing the young for the duties and responsibilities of life. Mr. Wilson is a member of the South Slope Gun Club and greatly enjoys hunting and fishing, to which he turns when leisure permits, but his important business interests leave him little time for sport of that character. Mrs. Wilson belongs to the Crescent Improvement Club, of which she formerly served as president, and both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson occupy an enviable position in those social circles where true worth and intelligence are accepted as the passports to good society. Mr. Wilson has frequently served on various boards of an important character and his fellow townsmen have full confidence in his integrity and his judgment and regard him as one of the most representative men of his section of the state.
Info received from Amanda Fox.
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Marion Wilson is known as one of the leading ranchmen of Gem county. He has a wide acquaintance and those who are familiar with his career speak of him in terms of warm regard, for he has accomplished much and accomplished it along well defined lines of industry and integrity. He is today the owner of an excellent property of three hundred and sixty acres devoted to the raising of hay, grain and live stock, his ranch being situated six miles southwest of Emmett. Mr. Wilson is a native son of Missouri, his birth having occurred near Maryville on the 19th of November, 1861 (Nov. 30, 1860 per Idaho Death Index), his parents being Albert and Martha L. (Martin) Wilson, who came to Idaho about forty-six years ago. The mother is still living in Boise at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, making her home with a daughter, Mrs. Mary M. Lehew.
Marion Wilson was but a small child when his parents removed from Missouri to Iowa and thence came to Idaho with the family in 1874. He has lived in what is now Gem county and in the Upper Payette valley in the vicinity of Emmett throughout all the intervening years, covering more than forty-five years, and throughout the entire period has devoted his life to ranching and the raising of live stock. He is now classed with the best known and leading ranchmen of Gem county, having won substantial success as the years have passed. His ranch is six miles southwest of Emmett and is a very valuable and productive tract of land comprising three hundred and sixty acres, the soil being so rich that it responds most readily to the care and labor bestowed upon it. Mr. Wilson homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres and preempted one hundred and sixty acres and he also obtained a timber claim of eighty acres, all the property adjoining. This made him owner of four hundred acres, but he has since sold forty acres of the preemption tract, which he had obtained from the government in the '80s. Every modern convenience, equipment and improvement has been placed thereon until his ranch is one of the fine properties of this section of the state. Upon the place is a Lombardy poplar grove which he planted over a third of a century ago, and the trees are now tall and straight and present a wonderful and beautiful sight as they pierce the blue of heaven like arrows of green.
On the 17th of June, 1903, Mr. Wilson was married at Nampa, Idaho, to Miss Lena Dressel, who was born at Seward, Nebraska, July 17, 1880, a daughter of Jacob C. and Johanna (Rost) Dressel, with whom she came to Idaho in 1900 from Kansas, where the family had lived after leaving Nebraska. Mrs. Wilson is a highly educated and cultured lady and formerly taught school prior to her marriage. She has become the mother of three sons: Albert Dressel, born June 26, 1904; Edgar Marion, December 2, 1906; and Robert Howard, October 1, 1909. The youngest and the only daughter of the family, Edna Catherine, was born October 26, 1914, and died August 31, 1916, bringing great grief to the household.
Mr. Wilson votes with the democratic party and served as county commissioner of Gem county for the years 1917 and 1918. He has lived in the three different counties of Ada, Canyon and Gem, yet all at the same place, owing to the changes in county divisional boundaries. He is a member of the Gem County Drainage District No. 1, has served on the school board of the South Slope school, which is near his home, for a period of eight years and is a stalwart champion of the cause of education, doing everything in his power to advance the standard of the schools and promote their efficiency in the work of preparing the young for the duties and responsibilities of life. Mr. Wilson is a member of the South Slope Gun Club and greatly enjoys hunting and fishing, to which he turns when leisure permits, but his important business interests leave him little time for sport of that character. Mrs. Wilson belongs to the Crescent Improvement Club, of which she formerly served as president, and both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson occupy an enviable position in those social circles where true worth and intelligence are accepted as the passports to good society. Mr. Wilson has frequently served on various boards of an important character and his fellow townsmen have full confidence in his integrity and his judgment and regard him as one of the most representative men of his section of the state.
Marion married Lena and they were the parents of Albert, Cesear, and Howard Wilson.
Info received from Amanda Fox.
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Marion Wilson is known as one of the leading ranchmen of Gem county. He has a wide acquaintance and those who are familiar with his career speak of him in terms of warm regard, for he has accomplished much and accomplished it along well defined lines of industry and integrity. He is today the owner of an excellent property of three hundred and sixty acres devoted to the raising of hay, grain and live stock, his ranch being situated six miles southwest of Emmett. Mr. Wilson is a native son of Missouri, his birth having occurred near Maryville on the 19th of November, 1861 (Nov. 30, 1860 per Idaho Death Index), his parents being Albert and Martha L. (Martin) Wilson, who came to Idaho about forty-six years ago. The mother is still living in Boise at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, making her home with a daughter, Mrs. Mary M. Lehew.
Marion Wilson was but a small child when his parents removed from Missouri to Iowa and thence came to Idaho with the family in 1874. He has lived in what is now Gem county and in the Upper Payette valley in the vicinity of Emmett throughout all the intervening years, covering more than forty-five years, and throughout the entire period has devoted his life to ranching and the raising of live stock. He is now classed with the best known and leading ranchmen of Gem county, having won substantial success as the years have passed. His ranch is six miles southwest of Emmett and is a very valuable and productive tract of land comprising three hundred and sixty acres, the soil being so rich that it responds most readily to the care and labor bestowed upon it. Mr. Wilson homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres and preempted one hundred and sixty acres and he also obtained a timber claim of eighty acres, all the property adjoining. This made him owner of four hundred acres, but he has since sold forty acres of the preemption tract, which he had obtained from the government in the '80s. Every modern convenience, equipment and improvement has been placed thereon until his ranch is one of the fine properties of this section of the state. Upon the place is a Lombardy poplar grove which he planted over a third of a century ago, and the trees are now tall and straight and present a wonderful and beautiful sight as they pierce the blue of heaven like arrows of green.
On the 17th of June, 1903, Mr. Wilson was married at Nampa, Idaho, to Miss Lena Dressel, who was born at Seward, Nebraska, July 17, 1880, a daughter of Jacob C. and Johanna (Rost) Dressel, with whom she came to Idaho in 1900 from Kansas, where the family had lived after leaving Nebraska. Mrs. Wilson is a highly educated and cultured lady and formerly taught school prior to her marriage. She has become the mother of three sons: Albert Dressel, born June 26, 1904; Edgar Marion, December 2, 1906; and Robert Howard, October 1, 1909. The youngest and the only daughter of the family, Edna Catherine, was born October 26, 1914, and died August 31, 1916, bringing great grief to the household.
Mr. Wilson votes with the democratic party and served as county commissioner of Gem county for the years 1917 and 1918. He has lived in the three different counties of Ada, Canyon and Gem, yet all at the same place, owing to the changes in county divisional boundaries. He is a member of the Gem County Drainage District No. 1, has served on the school board of the South Slope school, which is near his home, for a period of eight years and is a stalwart champion of the cause of education, doing everything in his power to advance the standard of the schools and promote their efficiency in the work of preparing the young for the duties and responsibilities of life. Mr. Wilson is a member of the South Slope Gun Club and greatly enjoys hunting and fishing, to which he turns when leisure permits, but his important business interests leave him little time for sport of that character. Mrs. Wilson belongs to the Crescent Improvement Club, of which she formerly served as president, and both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson occupy an enviable position in those social circles where true worth and intelligence are accepted as the passports to good society. Mr. Wilson has frequently served on various boards of an important character and his fellow townsmen have full confidence in his integrity and his judgment and regard him as one of the most representative men of his section of the state.
Info received from Amanda Fox.
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Marion Wilson is known as one of the leading ranchmen of Gem county. He has a wide acquaintance and those who are familiar with his career speak of him in terms of warm regard, for he has accomplished much and accomplished it along well defined lines of industry and integrity. He is today the owner of an excellent property of three hundred and sixty acres devoted to the raising of hay, grain and live stock, his ranch being situated six miles southwest of Emmett. Mr. Wilson is a native son of Missouri, his birth having occurred near Maryville on the 19th of November, 1861 (Nov. 30, 1860 per Idaho Death Index), his parents being Albert and Martha L. (Martin) Wilson, who came to Idaho about forty-six years ago. The mother is still living in Boise at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, making her home with a daughter, Mrs. Mary M. Lehew.
Marion Wilson was but a small child when his parents removed from Missouri to Iowa and thence came to Idaho with the family in 1874. He has lived in what is now Gem county and in the Upper Payette valley in the vicinity of Emmett throughout all the intervening years, covering more than forty-five years, and throughout the entire period has devoted his life to ranching and the raising of live stock. He is now classed with the best known and leading ranchmen of Gem county, having won substantial success as the years have passed. His ranch is six miles southwest of Emmett and is a very valuable and productive tract of land comprising three hundred and sixty acres, the soil being so rich that it responds most readily to the care and labor bestowed upon it. Mr. Wilson homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres and preempted one hundred and sixty acres and he also obtained a timber claim of eighty acres, all the property adjoining. This made him owner of four hundred acres, but he has since sold forty acres of the preemption tract, which he had obtained from the government in the '80s. Every modern convenience, equipment and improvement has been placed thereon until his ranch is one of the fine properties of this section of the state. Upon the place is a Lombardy poplar grove which he planted over a third of a century ago, and the trees are now tall and straight and present a wonderful and beautiful sight as they pierce the blue of heaven like arrows of green.
On the 17th of June, 1903, Mr. Wilson was married at Nampa, Idaho, to Miss Lena Dressel, who was born at Seward, Nebraska, July 17, 1880, a daughter of Jacob C. and Johanna (Rost) Dressel, with whom she came to Idaho in 1900 from Kansas, where the family had lived after leaving Nebraska. Mrs. Wilson is a highly educated and cultured lady and formerly taught school prior to her marriage. She has become the mother of three sons: Albert Dressel, born June 26, 1904; Edgar Marion, December 2, 1906; and Robert Howard, October 1, 1909. The youngest and the only daughter of the family, Edna Catherine, was born October 26, 1914, and died August 31, 1916, bringing great grief to the household.
Mr. Wilson votes with the democratic party and served as county commissioner of Gem county for the years 1917 and 1918. He has lived in the three different counties of Ada, Canyon and Gem, yet all at the same place, owing to the changes in county divisional boundaries. He is a member of the Gem County Drainage District No. 1, has served on the school board of the South Slope school, which is near his home, for a period of eight years and is a stalwart champion of the cause of education, doing everything in his power to advance the standard of the schools and promote their efficiency in the work of preparing the young for the duties and responsibilities of life. Mr. Wilson is a member of the South Slope Gun Club and greatly enjoys hunting and fishing, to which he turns when leisure permits, but his important business interests leave him little time for sport of that character. Mrs. Wilson belongs to the Crescent Improvement Club, of which she formerly served as president, and both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson occupy an enviable position in those social circles where true worth and intelligence are accepted as the passports to good society. Mr. Wilson has frequently served on various boards of an important character and his fellow townsmen have full confidence in his integrity and his judgment and regard him as one of the most representative men of his section of the state.
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