Background
Wilson, Stephen Fowler was born on September 4, 1821 in Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Wilson, Stephen Fowler was born on September 4, 1821 in Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States.
He received an academic education, studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced.
He held several local offices. He was a delegate to the 1864 Republican National Convention. Wilson was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses.
He was appointed additional judge of the fourth judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1871 to fill a vacancy.
He was elected additional judge and served ten years. He was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico by President Chester A. Arthur on October 16, 1884.
He was president judge of the fourth judicial district of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1889. He resumed the practice of his profession in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1897.
Interment in Wellsboro Cemetery.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1863 to 1865 and served in one session after he had been elected a Representative to Congress.