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CHARLES W. WILSON
Vol. 5, p. 1860, 1861

Noted for his sound judgment and keen business sagacity, Charles W.
Wilson is regarded as one of the safe and sound financiers of
Woodward County, and his connection with the Security State Bank of
Mooreland, of which he has been cashier since 1914, has resulted very
advantageously to that concern. Mr. Wilson came to the West in his
youth, with little to aid him save his ambition and energy and after
a number of years spent in Kansas came to Oklahoma in a business
capacity in which he displayed qualities that led to his introduction
to banking circles.

Born July 3, 1863, on a farm in Lenawee County, Michigan, Mr. Wilson
is a son of Charles B. and Rosa M. (HILL) Wilson. His father was born
in 1832, at Thomaston, Connecticut, where the family was well and
favorably known and where the grandparents were born, and was one
year old when taken to Lenawee County, Michigan. There Charles B.
Wilson was reared on a pioneer farm, was given an ordinary education
and as a young man engaged in teaching school, although later he
turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and succeeded to the
ownership of the farm which had been proved up by his father. An
industrious and enterprising man, his life was passed in the peaceful
pursuits of the soil, and his death occurred on his Michigan farm
April 20, 1900. In his community he had an excellent reputation in
business circles, while his good citizenship was evidenced on all
occasions. In 1857, in Michigan, Mr. Wilson was united in marriage
with Miss Rosa M. Hill, who was born in 1837, in Connecticut,
daughter of Rollin R. and Millicent (KASSON) Hill, natives of
Litchfield County, Connecticut. She was taken as a child to Michigan,
where she was reared and educated and prior to her marriage was, like
her husband, a teacher in the public schools. Her death occurred
February 8, 1884, and thirty years later, in 1914, one of the
classrooms of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Morenci, Michigan,
was dedicated to her as a memorial to her faithful and devoted work
in behalf of that congregation during the early days. Two sons and
one daughter were born to Charles B. and Rosa M. Hill, namely:
Clarence A., Luella Josephine and Charles W. Clarence A. Wilson of
this family was born August 14, 1859, in Lenawee County, Michigan,
and was given good educational advantages, being graduated from
Valparaiso College, at Valparaiso, Indiana. He took up banking in
1884, when he was elected cashier of the Wakefield State Bank of
Morenci, Michigan, a position which he still retains, being one of
the best known bankers in that part of the state. He was married in
1904 to Miss Marie BEAUCHAMP, a native of Newport, Kentucky, and they
are the parents of two daughters: Charlotte and Millicent. Luella
Josephine Wilson was born in Lenawee County, Michigan, February 20,
1861, and early displayed literary talent of more than ordinary
order. In addition to being a magazine writer of note, she was
secretary of the Writers' Club of Toledo, Ohio, and held that
position at the time of her death, April 20, 1912. She married Frank
SMITH, a native of Ohio, in 1886, and they became the parents of two
children: Herbert W. and Dorothy

Charles W. Wilson was reared on the home farm in Michigan and
received his education in the public schools of Lenawee County. At
the age of twenty-two years, in 1885, he left home to seek his
fortune in the West, his destination being Harper, Kansas, where he
secured a position in a flouring mill. During the fifteen years that
followed he worked at milling at different points in Southern Kansas,
and in various capacities, and became well and favorably known to the
people of Barber county, in that state, who, in 1902, elected him to
the office of county clerk. The manner in which he discharged his
duties during his first term resulted in his election to succeed
himself in 1904, and the entire four years of his incumbency were
marked by faithful, capable, energetic and conscientious performance
of duty. In 1907, 1908, and 1909, Mr. Wilson was assistant cashier of
the First National Bank of Kiowa, Kansas, where he gained excellent
experience, but in 1911 he transferred his activities to Oklahoma,
coming to Mooreland to accept the management of the grain elevator of
the Alva Roller Mills, a concern which is being capably managed by
George A. HARBAUGH, with a large mill at Alva and a chain of grain
elevators in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Mr. Wilson soon became known
as a business man of unusual capacity and in 1914 was offered and
accepted the cashiership of the Security State Bank of Mooreland, of
which office he has since been the incumbent. This is one of the
sound and conservative financial institutions of Woodward County,
established in 1906, whose depositors come from Woodward and the
surrounding counties. He has maintained his position as a man of
substantial business qualities and exceptional character, and is
rapidly becoming one of the most prominent and successful citizens of
his locality. Fraternally, Mr. Wilson affiliates with Masons and
Knights of Pythias, in both of which he has numerous friends. Since
attaining his majority he has been an unswerving republican.

Mr. Wilson was married October 26, 1892, at Medicine Lodge, Kansas
to Miss Lizzie C. CLARK, who was born February 14, 1872, at old Osage
Mission, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have had no children. She is a
member of the Presbyterian Church and has taken an active interest in
its work.

Transcribed by Lee Ann Collins, April 9, 2000.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).