Henry Van Peters Wilson

Background

Wilson, Henry Van Peters was born on February 16, 1863 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Review Samuel A. and Sophia Anne (Stansbury) Wilson.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins, 1883, Doctor of Philosophy, 1888.

Career

Assistant United States Fish Commission, 1889-1891. Professor biology, 1891-1904, professor zoölogy, 1914-1917, Kenan professor zoölogy, since 1917, University of North Carolina Director United States Fisheries Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, 1899-1902. Southern exchange lecturer, 1915-1916.

Dohme lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, 1936.

Original investigations on the embryology and regeneration of sponges, coelenterates, lower vertebrates. Classification of sponges.

Home: Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Achievements

• Henry Van Peters Wilson has been listed as a noteworthy educator, biologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Edith Theresa Stickney, June 10, 1893 (deceased). Children: Edith Stedman (Mistress Thorndike Saville), Eleanora Stansbury (Mistress Howell Peacock), Henry Van Peters.

Father:

Review Samuel A. Wilson

Mother:

Sophia Anne (Stansbury) Wilson

Spouse:

Edith Theresa Stickney

child:

Edith Stedman Wilson (Mistress Thorndike Saville)

child:

Henry Van Peters Wilson

child:

Eleanora Stansbury Wilson (Mistress Howell Peacock)