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Samuel R. Wilson was born on June 4, 1818, at Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Joshua Lacy Wilson and Sarah Mackay.
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The Causes and Remedies of Impending National Calamities: An Address (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Causes and Remedies of Impending National Calamities: An Address IT should seem that we are upon the eve of CIVIL war. Already is the atmosphere murky with those clouds which hang like a funereal pall over the burning volcano. Already do we feel those strange vibrations which admonish that the pent-up fires are struggling to break over their accustomed barriers, and pour their lava tide over field, and city, and hamlet. The most thoughtless have ceased to laugh at the threatening calamity; the wisest and the bravest feel their hearts beat slower as they look around for some means to avert the danger, or prepare bravely to meet it. In the North there is denunciation; in the South there is menace. Everywhere the mingled sound of hesitation, preparation, action. The sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing, because of those things which seem to be coming upon the land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Samuel Ramsay Wilson
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In the spring of 1829 he began preparatory studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, but later transferred to Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, where he received Bachelor of Arts degree in 1836.
The next year he entered Princeton Theological Seminary and graduated in 1840.
Career
He was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick on August 5, 1840, and began his ministerial career as a colleague of his father at the First Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati. After his ordination on April 26, 1842, he became co-pastor and upon his father's death in 1846 pastor, remaining as such until his resignation on March 2, 1861.
On the eve of the Civil War he declared his sympathy with the Southern cause, and as a commissioner of the Old School General Assembly of 1861 opposed the resolutions introduced by the Rev. Gardiner Spring which acknowledged obligation to promote and perpetuate the integrity of the United States. In the same year he accepted a call to the Grand Street (later Fourth) Presbyterian Church, New York, but resigned because of ill health in January 1863.
Later he supplied the Mulberry Presbyterian Church of Shelby County, Kentucky, for fifteen months, and on March 12, 1865, was installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Louisville.
Before the Assembly of 1865 he pleaded in vain for the "olive branch" instead of the resolutions, later termed the "Pittsburgh Orders, " which stigmatized secession as a crime.
The following summer he drew up, as the protest of "a little band" against the Assembly's subservience to the federal government's attitude toward the South, the "Declaration and Testimony" which was adopted by the Presbytery of Louisville. One of Wilson's most brilliant speeches was delivered before the Synod of Kentucky in defense of this document and of the Presbytery of Louisville. Wilson resigned his Louisville church December 9, 1879, and from 1880 to 1883 was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Madison, Indiana, but subsequently returned to Louisville, where he died on March 3, 1886.
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Religion
As a border-state spokesman Samuel R. Wilson opposed the reconstruction policy of the majority of the Old School Presbyterian Church.
Connections
On March 25, 1841, Samuel R. Wilson married Nancy Campbell Johnston, who died June 23, 1849. The couple had five children.
On January 29, 1852, Wilson married Mary Catherine Bell, who died December 17, 1874. They had seven children.
On January 11, 1876, he married Annie Maria Steele who died December 10, 1920. They had two children.
- Father:
- Joshua Lacy Wilson
- Mother:
- Sarah Wilson (Mackay)
- Sister:
- Frances Walton "Fannie" Lynn (Wilson)
- Sister:
- Mary Ann Wheeler Wilson
- Sister:
- Sally Agnes Wilson
- Sister:
- Amanda Lacy Wilson
- Wife:
- Annie Maria Wilson (Steele)
- Wife:
- Mary Catherine Wilson (Bell)
- Wife:
- Nancy Campbell Wilson (Johnston)
- Daughter:
- Catharine McNair Wilson
- Daughter:
- Agnes Lacy Wilson
- Daughter:
- Rhuy Hannah Wilson (Wilson)
- Daughter:
- Mary Jane Wilson
- Daughter:
- Sarah Frances Wilson
- Son:
- Edward Lacy Wilson
- Son:
- Samuel Mackay Wilson
- Son:
- John Henry Wilson
- Son:
- Samuel Henry Wilson
- Son:
- James Franklin Wilson
- Son:
- Dunning Steele Wilson
- Son:
- Joshua Lacy Wilson
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March 3, 1886 (aged 67) -
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Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States -
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Religion
Presbyterianism