Background
Bird Wilson was born on January 8, 1777, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of James Wilson and Rachel Bird.
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Bird Wilson was born on January 8, 1777, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of James Wilson and Rachel Bird.
In 1789 he entered the College of Philadelphia (united in 1791 with the University of Pennsylvania), graduating in 1792. He studied law under Joseph Thomas of Philadelphia.
Wilson was admitted to the bar in 1797. After holding a position under the commissioner of bankrupt law, in 1802 he was appointed president of the court of common pleas in the seventh circuit. Only one of his decisions was ever reversed, and in that case an important new document had been found.
Active in the organization of St. John's Church, Norristown, he served it as warden and as deputy to the diocesan convention. He was deeply affected when called on to pronounce the death sentence, and late in 1817, partly because of the appearance of another capital case on the docket of his court, he resigned and studied for the ministry.
On March 12, 1819, Bishop William White, who had probably directed his studies, ordained him deacon, and about a year later, priest. Soon after, the rector having died, he was called to St. John's, Norristown, and St. Thomas', Whitemarsh. His parish ministry was successful, but short. Elected in 1821 professor of systematic divinity in the General Theological Seminary, in the spring of 1822 he took up his duties in New York. In 1826, at the election of an assistant to Bishop White, Wilson received twenty-six votes out of fifty-four, but withdrew from the contest. He remained canonically resident in the diocese of Pennsylvania, but took no further active part in its affairs.
In 1827 the seminary had moved to Twentieth Street, Wilson taking one of the professors' houses. With Prof. S. H. Turner he conducted services for that then suburban neighborhood, and out of them grew St. Peter's Church. As dean of the seminary, an office then held by the resident professors in turn, he presided in 1844 - 1845 over the trial of several tractarian students accused of Roman sympathies, an episode that depressed him greatly. In 1848, feeling himself neither wanted nor useful, he sent his resignation to the trustees, but it was rejected. In 1850 he retired as professor emeritus, and moved to a house near the seminary. The last years of his life he suffered from softening of the brain. Bird Wilson died on April 14, 1859, in New York.
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