WILSON, Albert C., merchant, stock raiser and farmer; born at Bangor, N.Y., April 22, 1858; son of Isaac P. and Eliza E. (Lyons) Wilson; educated at Montreal, Can., 1866-78; married at Detroit, Mich., Jan. 18, 1888, to Annie M. Blackwood. Engaged in lumber business 1878-82; came to Minnesota, 1882, and was connected with railway construction work, 1882-86; was in lumber business at Royalton as A.C. Wilson & Co., 1886-1904; began stock raising 1887, and has been in agricultural implement business since 1904. President First National Bank; secretary and treasurer Royalton Lumber Co., Inc. Republican. Episcopalian. Member Knights of Pythias, B.P.O.E. Address: Royalton, Minn.

The Book of Minnesotans; a biographical dictionary of leading living men of the state of Minnesota (1907), edited by Albert Nelson Marquis. [pp. 559-60]