Biography

12/29/1863 - 11/11/1922

WILSON, John S., a Representative from Lancaster County; born, December 29, 1863; attended, Canandaigua Academy, NY; engaged, hardware business; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1892, 1894, and 1896; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1898); owner, candy factory, J.S. Wilson Candy Company; died, November 11, 1922 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Bethel Cemetery, Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.