Background
Willson, Augustus Everett was born on October 13, 1846 in Maysville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Hiram and Ann Colvin (Ennis) Willson.
Willson, Augustus Everett was born on October 13, 1846 in Maysville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Hiram and Ann Colvin (Ennis) Willson.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1869. Master of Arts, 1872; student Harvard Law School, 1870. Studied law in offices of Lothrop, Bishop & Lincoln, Boston, and under John M. Harlan, Louisville, Kentucky.
Doctor of Laws, Harvard, 1908, also University of Kentucky and Berea College.
General James A. Ekin, United States of America, July 23, 1877. Chief clerk Treasury Department, December 1875-August 1876. Republican nominee for Congress, 5th Kentucky District, 1884, 86, 88, 92.
Delegate Republican National conversations
1884, 88, 92, 1904, 08, 16. Governor of Kentucky, 1907-1911.
Resumed practice of law, 1911.
Member Board Overseers, Harvard, 1910-1918.
Married Mary Elizabeth, daughter