Background
Wilson, Rufus Rockwell was born on March 15, 1865 in Troy, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Hiram and Mary (Rockwell) Wilson.
Wilson, Rufus Rockwell was born on March 15, 1865 in Troy, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Hiram and Mary (Rockwell) Wilson.
Education high school.
Journalist in Pittsburgh, Washington, New York, 1883-1891. Magazine writer and newspaper syndicate manager, 1891-1906. On staff Brooklyn Eagle, 1906-1908.
Editor public Malden (Washington) Herald, 1908-1909. Literature and political reform work, 1911. Secretary Seattle Commercial Club, 1911.
Secretary Humboldt Development Company, Eureka, California, 1912-1913. Community advertising, New York, 1914-1916. Secretary National Association Cotton Manufacturers, 1917-1921.
Organizer and general secretary First World Cotton Conference, New Orleans, 1919. Engaged in mining, 1921-1929. Now president Primavera Press, Inc., Wilson Book Company Author: Rambles in Colonial Byways, 1900.
Washington, The Capital City, 1901. New York, Old and New, 1902. Lincoln in Caricature, 1903.
New England in Letters, 1904. The Sea Rovers, 1906. A Noble Company of Adventurers, 1908.
What Lincoln Read, 1932. Out of the West, 1932. Lincoln in Portraiture, 1936.
Lincoln Among His Friends, 1942. Intimate Memories of Lincoln, 1945. Lincoln in Caricature (new edit.), 1946.
New York in Literature, 1947. Editor: Burnaby’s,Travels Through North America, 1904. Heath’s Memoirs of the American War, 1904.
Moultrie’s Memoirs of the American Revolution, 1905. The Golden Year, 1932. Across the Plains and Among the Diggings, 1936.
Jedediah Smith: Trader and Trail Breaker, 1936. Lincoln’s First Years in Illinois, 1946. Uncollected Works of Lincoln—A Supplement to Niculay and Hay.
1947. Home: 610 W. Church St., Elmira, New York.
Club, 1911.
Married Anna Otilie Erickson, June 2, 1934. Children: Marion Elizabeth (deceased), Edward Strong.