Background
Wilson, James Grant was born on April 28, 1832 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Son of William W. and Jane (Sibbald) Wilson.
Wilson, James Grant was born on April 28, 1832 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Son of William W. and Jane (Sibbald) Wilson.
Brother of Walter Sibbald West. Academic education, and by private tutors. (Doctor of Civil Law, Saint Stephen’s College, 1894.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Hobart, 1895).
Founded, 1857, and was editor and proprietor Chicago Record (journal of arts and literature). Major 15th Illinois Cavalry, December 25, 1862. Colonel 4th United States Colored Cavalry, September 14, 1863.
Aide-de-camp to General North. P. Banks, 1863-1865.
Bvtd. brigadier general volumes, March 13, 1865, “for faithful and meritorious services”. Resigned June 16, 1865.
In literature work at New York, since 1865. President New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1886-1902.
President American Authors’ Guild, 1893-1899, and editor of its Monthly Bulletin.
President American Ethnological Society, since 1900, Drawing Room, 1906. Vice president American Society Prevention Cruelty to Animals, 1907, and editor of its Bulletin. Vice president Hudson-Fulton Commission, 1909.
Erected bronze statue to the poet Halleck, and Columbus, and for latter was knighted by the Queen Regent of Spain in 1894, and the Maine National Memorial Monument, all in Central Park.
Editor: Fitz-Greene Halleck’s Poems, 1868. Poets and Poetry of Scotland (2 volumes), 1876.
Memorial History of the City of New York (4 volumes), 1892-1893. Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography (7 volumes), 1901.
Great Commanders Series (18 volumes), completed 1903.
Memoirs of an American Lady, 1901. Author: Mr. Secretary Pepys and His Diary, 1867. Life of Fitz-Greene Halleck, 1869, Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers, 1874.
Bryant and His Friends, 1886.
The World’s Largest Libraries, 1894. Life of General Grant, 1897.
The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1901, 1902. Thackeray in the United States (2 volumes), 1904.
Memoir General Henry West. Halleck, 1905.
Thackeray in the United States, new edit, 1909. Commodore Isaac Hull and the Frigate Constitution, 1910. Home: New York, New New York
Authors’ Guild, 1893-1899, and editor of its Monthly Bulletin. President American Ethnological Society, since 1900, Drawing Room, 1906. Vice president American Society Prevention Cruelty to Animals, 1907, and editor of its Bulletin.
Vice president Hudson-Fulton Commission, 1909. Erected bronze statue to the poet Halleck, and Columbus, and for latter was knighted by the Queen Regent of Spain in 1894, and the Maine National Memorial Monument, all in Central Park. Editor: Fitz-Greene Halleck’s Poems, 1868.
Poets and Poetry of Scotland (2 vols.), 1876. Memorial History of the City of New York (4 vols.), 1892-1893. Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography (7 vols.), 1901.
Great Commanders Series (18 vols.), completed 1903. Memoirs of an American Lady, 1901. Author: Mr. Secretary Pepys and His Diary, 1867.
Life of Fitz-Greene Halleck, 1869, Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers, 1874. Bryant and His Friends, 1886. The World’s Largest Libraries, 1894.
Life of General Grant, 1897. The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1901, 1902. Thackeray in the United States (2 vols.), 1904.
Memoir General Henry W. Halleck, 1905. Thackeray in the United States, new edit., 1909. Commodore Isaac Hull and the Frigate Constitution, 1910.
Married Jane Emily Searle Cogswell, November 3, 1869 (died 1904). Married second, Mistress.