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WILSON, ROBERT (1810-1881)

WILSON, ROBERT, Presbyterian minister, St John's Church, Chatham, 1871-72; b. Lochmaben, Scotland, 1810; m. Susanna - , also a native of Scotland; d. Montreal, 18 Jul 1881.

Robert Wilson, who was educated at Glasgow, was living in England in the late 1840s. In 1852 he arrived in Yarmouth, N.S., as a Congregational minister. In the 1860s he was the pastor of the Congregational church at Sheffield, N.B. He joined the Presbyterians in 1870, the year before he became minister of St John's Church in Chatham, as successor to the Rev. Alexander Rae Garvie. After a one-year term he went to St Stephen, where he remained until 1875. He then moved to Montreal and served as city missionary, ministering to the poor and the institutionalized. At his funeral in 1881 leaders in the Montreal Presbyterian community spoke "in terms of the highest appreciation" of his "unselfishness, kindness, tact, and Christian wisdom in dealing with all classes of sufferers and friendless ones."

Wilson and his wife had two adult daughters and two teenaged sons living at home with them in Chatham in 1871.

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[b] Betts (FF) [d] Telegraph 19 Jul 1881 / Betts (CC); United Presbyterian Magazine 1 Sep 1881; Whyte


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