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	Alexander Wilson - LoveToKnow 1911
		ALEXANDER WILSON (1766-1813), American ornithologist, was born in Paisley, Scotland, on the 6th of July 1766.
		His father, a handloom weaver, soon removed to the country, and there combined weaving with agriculture, distilling and smuggling - conditions which no doubt helped to develop in the boy that love of rural pursuits and adventure which was to determine his career.
		Under his influence Wilson began to draw birds, having conceived the idea of illustrating the ornithology of the United States; and thenceforward he steadily accumulated materials and made many expeditions.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alexander_Wilson (287 words)

	Alexander Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Wilson (July 6, 1766 – August 23, 1813) was a Scottish-born American poet, ornithologist, naturalist and illustrator.
		Wilson was born in Paisley, Scotland, the son of an illiterate distiller.
		Wilson obtained employment as a schoolteacher in Milestown, near Philadelphia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Wilson (388 words)

	Alexander Wilson
		Wilson was prosecuted, convicted, imprisoned, and compelled to burn the libel with his own hands at the public cross of Paisley.
		Wilson was at this time at Milestown; but when he heard of their arrival, he set out on foot for New York, a distance of four hundred miles, for the sole purpose of assisting in getting them comfortably settled.
		Wilson’s reputation, indeed, and the merits of his great undertaking, had now forced themselves into notice, not only in America, but throughout all Europe, and one of his biographers says, that there was not a crowned head in the latter quarter of the globe but had then become a subscriber to the American Ornithology.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/alexander_wilson.htm (4085 words)

	Alexander Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Alexander Wilson was born on July 6, 1766, the son of a weaver.
		Wilson's enthusiasm was high, but a lack of ornithological knowledge and training combined with meager artistic abilities left him unformed and undirected until he became John Bartram's "student." Under the patriarch's guidance, Wilson learned to draw, to describe and identify difficult birds, and to understand the scientific literature in the Bartram library.
		Alexander Wilson's journeys in search of birds were many and long, and he traveled well beyond the borders of Pennsylvania.
	www.dep.state.pa.us /dep/PA_Env-Her/alexandar_wilson.htm (388 words)

	Alexander Wilson - Encyclopedia.com
		Wilson is also known for his poems and essays on nature.
		The Wilson Journal of Ornithology; 6/1/2006; Sedgwick, James A.; 1070 words; Alexander Wilson, namesake of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, was born on 6 July 1766 in Scotland.
		Wilson and Alexander want Dounreay at the heart of world class decommissioning industry.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-WilsonAl.html (1034 words)

	Alexander Wilson Ornithologist
		Alexander Wilson was born at Paisley, Scotland in 1766.
		Wilson left school when he was twelve or thirteen years old to live with his older sister and her husband, William Duncan, who was a weaver.
		Wilson was dissatisfied with the oppression in his country and decided to seek a better life in America.
	www.cyberbee.com /henryhikes/wilson.html (366 words)

	Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilson is a variant of the name William and may refer to the following:
		Wilson was the neighbor of Tim and Jill Taylor, whose obscured face was the subject of a running gag.
		Wilson Sporting Goods, which spawned the name of Tom Hanks' volleyball companion in the film Cast Away.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilson (145 words)

	AllRefer.com - Alexander Wilson (Zoology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Encouraged by William Bartram, he studied the birds of his adopted country, learned to portray them, and began his American Ornithology (9 vol., 1808–14), a work that is noted for its accuracy and sensitive draftsmanship.
		The last two volumes of this series of books were completed by his friend and biographer (1829), George Ord, after Wilson's death.
		Wilson is also known for his poems and essays on nature.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WilsonAl.html (202 words)

	Alexander Wilson Biography / Biography of Alexander Wilson Biography Biography
		Alexander Wilson was born on July 6, 1766, in Paisley, Scotland, into a large, poor family.
		Wilson became convinced that no single work on American birds was free from defect, and he decided to produce a comprehensive illustrated work on the birds of the eastern United States.
		Wilson's health broke down while he was preparing the eighth volume of American Ornithology for publication, and he died in Philadelphia on Aug. 23, 1813.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-alexander-wilson (511 words)

	Alexander Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Alexander Wilson was born in Paisley, Scotland on 6 July 1766.
		It was a time of political unrest and social upheaval in America and Europe, and Wilson used his poetry to comment on what he saw as the unfair treatment of the weavers by their employers.
		Portrait of Wilson Portrait attributed to Thomas Sully, courtesy of the American Philosophial Society, Philadelphia.
	www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu /birds/AWilsoninfo.html (381 words)

	ALEXANDER WILSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is entitled "Alexander Wilson, Poet-Nat- uralist," 1906, published by the Neale Publishing Company, New York and Washington, at $g.00; and approaches more nearly the ideal than anything heretofore, though it treats al- most exclusively the literary side of the subject.
		Alexander Lawson, by whom most of them were.executed; and who as an engraver of objects of natural his- tory, stands unrivalled." The species are arranged in systematic order, presumably by Ord.
		I By I Alexander Wilson I and I Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Wilson/v021n04/p0165-p0186.html (11331 words)

	Alexander's Bridge - CHAPTER I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Wilson was standing quite still, contemplating with a whimsical smile the slanting street, with its worn paving, its irregular, gravely colored houses, and the row of naked trees on which the thin sunlight was still shining.
		Alexander sat down in a high-backed chair and began to pour it, while Wilson sank into a low seat opposite her and took his cup with a great sense of ease and harmony and comfort.
		Alexander screened her face from the firelight, which was beginning to throw wavering bright spots on her dress and hair as the dusk deepened.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/romance/AlexandersBridge/Chap1.html (3593 words)

	Wilson's Biography
		The tragic irony of this American story is its truncation; indeed, it is Alexander Wilson's exhaustingly extreme dedication to his ornithological studies, and the illnesses contracted during his Leatherstocking-esque roamings through the forests that kill him at the age of forty-seven, just as he attains the station in life he so desires.
		Wilson attended the country school, but left at twelve or thirteen when he was apprenticed to his brother-in-law to learn the trade of weaving.
		Wilson merely recorded in his private journal that they had gone shooting together; Audubon, from a distance of many years and with possible envy at Wilson's earlier publications, recorded that he "did not subscribe to his work, for even at that time my [unpublished] collection was larger than his." (J.S. Wilson, p.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~PUBLIC/wilson/bio.html (4175 words)

	Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (www.whonamedit.com)
		Samuel Wilson in July 1912 won great repute and received the gold medal of the University of Edinburgh for a 211 page doctoral thesis entitled "Progressive lenticular degeneration: A familial nervous disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver".
		Wilson eyed him with some circumspection and starting to walk away, asked "Do you mean Kinnier Wilson's disease?" Although a skilled histologist, he took little interest in laboratory work, and most of his numerous papers concerned clinical neurology.
		Samuel Wilson was a legendary teacher, a quick witted man with a keen if ironic sense of humour, and possessing that element of "hamishness" which seems to be essential in demonstrating neurological problems.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/1711.html (949 words)

	The Academy of Natural Sciences - Library - Digital Collections - Gallery of Images - Alexander Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Alexander Wilson is considered by many to be the father of American ornithology.
		Wilson was a self-taught artist, and studied masters such as Mark Catesby.
		Wilson died in 1813 during the production of American Ornithology, which was completed from Wilson's notes and sketches assembled by George Ord, a founder of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
	www.acnatsci.org /library/collections/gallery/Wilson.html (327 words)

	Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology
		Wilson, a Scottish immigrant, drew most of the birds for his ornithology himself; the engraving was mostly by Alexander Lawson and John G. Warnicke.
		Wilson worked with a small budget and so had to crowd as many specimens as he could onto one plate for the series.
		Wilson's project of issuing a complete ornithology of the birds of North America was interrupted by his death in 1813.
	www.philaprintshop.com /wilson.html (691 words)

	Wilson Family Papers
		Wilson's role as one of the first school supervisors in the area is represented by some scant records (41:22), as is his position as a commissioner for the granting of tavern licenses (41:23).
		Alexander Wilson wrote many letters to his father while a student, and it is from his papers that one gets a good idea of the nature of legal education at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
		Alexander's early death means there is little material relating to his career as a practicing attorney, but what is lacking from Alexander is more than made up for by the papers of his younger brother, Robert.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/UZ/WilsonFm.html (3043 words)

	Alexander Wilson the Ornithologist
		Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) is a lonely though shining example of a relative that excelled and actually became famous, though international recognition mostly arrived after his life had passed.
		This Alexander developed a circle of artists and scientific personages, among them being the friends Merriweather Lewis and Alexander Wilson--two men, Malvina says in her memoir, who were of similar temperament.
		Alexander Wilson traveled extensively by foot, to which he was well accustomed from his years in Scotland, and later by horse.
	www.netmeister.net /~cpaige/Wilsonpr.htm (1445 words)

	Rev. Alexander Anderson Wilson, 1821-1896
		Wilson was not disappointed in his thought that in addition to his worthy son he would have help in God's work from this nephew who was as a son.
		Alexander A Wilson was born August 24, 1821, in Sumner County, Tennessee.
		Maggie Wilson was born June 4, 1846, in Charlotte, Tenn., and died October 13, 1887, in Tompkinsville, Fla. She was a daughter of Proff.
	www.cumberland.org /HFCPC/minister/WilsonAA.htm (1733 words)

	University of Delaware: ALEXANDER WILSON PAPERS
		From evidence in the collection, Wilson was a Trustee of the Poor (1877), Secretary of School District 54, New Castle County (1875), and a commissioner of the New Castle County Levy Court.
		Wilson had a sister named Annie E. Wilson and a brother named Wiliam T. Wilson; letters addressed to Alexander from both siblings are included in this collection.
		Wilson's checks, drawn on the National Bank of Newark, are included at the end of this series.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/wilson_a.htm (1362 words)

	Alexander Wilson - Charles Lucien Bonaparte
		Published by Alexander Wilson in parts from 1808 to 1814, American Ornithology was the first ornithology including colored plates to be published in the United States.
		Wilson's work, cut short by his untimely death in 1813, was illustrated by 76 hand-colored copper-plate engravings by Alexander Lawson, G. Murray, J. Warnicke, and Benjamin Tanner.
		Wilson's work was extended by Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte of France, who put out his own subscription series from 1825 to 1833 entitled American Ornithology; or The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States, Not Given by Wilson.
	www.minniesland.com /print_room_Wilson_Bonaparte.html (670 words)

	No. 1935: Wilson, Before Audubon
		As a late teenager, Wilson became a peddler and a would-be poet.
		Wilson's poetic career took an unsavory turn when he wrote a poem accusing a local factory owner of cheating his workers.
		Wilson was deeply chagrined by their fine quality.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1935.htm (588 words)

	Wilson prints original prints by Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)
		Alexander Wilson, born ten years before the American Revolution in Paisley, Scotland, had been a weaver of silk and a widely published poet who ultimately found himself jailed for libel and publicly disgraced.
		Wilson never recovered from his last exhausting river crossing in pursuit of an elusive specimen.
		In fact, we feel that Wilson's work is undervalued and represents an excellent opportunity for the collector of early-American natural history art.
	www.audubonart.com /01_wil_01.asp (211 words)

	American Ornithology, Alexander Wilson - Page 24
		Alexander Wilson, known as the “Father of American Ornithology, and the first to seriously study and draw America’s birds, added 39 species to those previously known in this young country.
		Wilson trained himself to draw and traveled the then settled country – east of the Mississippi – to find and study the birds of his adopted nation.
		Wilson’s AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY began publication in 1808 and was completed in 1814, one year after his death.
	www.audubonprints-books.com /Wilson.htm (1379 words)

	The Wilson Family Page
		Alexander was born in South Carolina in 1832 and in 1880 lived in San Jacinto County near Pinkney Wilson.
		Alexander is also 20 in the same census, and there is a younger James in the family.
		This seems to indicate that James E. Wilson was not a twin to Alexander but was perhaps a cousin who came to live with Nancy's family, perhaps at the time of her husband's death.
	www.murrah.com /gen/wilson.htm (795 words)

	Wilson_Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Alexander Wilson was educated at the University of St Andrews.
		Wilson made many observations of sunspots using a geometric argument to show that they were depressions in the Sun.
		Wilson's answer, that the entire universe rotates about a centre, is of course incorrect.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Wilson_Alexander.html (195 words)

	CLEAVER COLLINS CRAVEN MUMMERT WILSON
		She died and Alexander was married a second time on June 4, 1804 to Mary Hyland, the daughter of Edward and Julian Arrants Hyland both from the Elk Neck, MD. A son William born was in 1808, then John born in 1809.
		Alexander's widow Mary remarried two years after his death to Captain John Ford (Foards) who was appointed guardian of the minor children of Alexander Wilson.
		Mary Hyland Wilson Ford never remarried and is buried behind her son Alexander Wilson in the Hart's Methodist Church Cemetery in Elk Neck MD. This church over looks the original Hyland land called "John and Mary Hylands." The view is spectacular and the historical marker at the church describes Generals Howe's invasion of Maryland.
	www.rstonesifer.com /genealogy/paf_data/d0003/g0000266.htm (1531 words)

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