Thomas Stokeley Wilson

1813 - 1894  (80 years)

• Name	Thomas Stokeley Wilson  [1, 2]
  Alt. Birth	Abt 1813	Ohio   [3]
  Born	13 Oct 1813	Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio   [2, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Physical Description	short and slight  [7]
  Alt. Birth	Abt 1815	Ohio   [8]
  Alt. Birth	Abt 1816	Ohio   [9]
  Alt. Birth	Abt 1820	Ohio   [10]
  Graduated	1832	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   [5]
  	Jefferson College
  Legal	1834	Ohio   [5]
  	was admitted to the bar
  Occupation	1834-1836	Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio   [2, 5, 6]
  	lawyer
  	In practice with General Stokely.
  Political	1837	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [5]
  	elected president of the board of trustees of the town of Dubuque
  	"Iowa was then a part of the Wisonsin territory, and contained two counties, Dubuque and Des Moines."
  Occupation	Aft 1836	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [2]
  	lawyer
  Occupation	1837	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [2]
  	Prosecuting Attorney
  Occupation	1838-1847  [2, 5]
  	Judge Supreme Court in Iowa Territory
  	The Dubuque Telegraph, Obituary He practiced law in Dubuque, Mineral Point, Lancaster and Prairie du Chien until July 4, 1838.  He was engaged in almost every suit up to that time.  In June 1838 he was nominated a delegate to congress by the northern counties of Iowa, at the same time he was appointed by President Van Buren judge of the supreme court of Iowa. He had made no application for the appointment, and it was made without his knowledge. His appointment was renewed by Presidents Tyler and Polk, and he continued judge of the supreme court until a year after the admission of Iowa into the union as a state in 1846. When the first legislature met and went into joint ballot he came within one vote of being elected United States senator; the firs court ever held in Iowa territory was held by Judge Wilson at Prairie la Porte, now Guttenburg, on the second Monday in November, 1838; he resigned his office as Judge of the supreme court in 1847, and practiced law in partnership with Platt Smith, Esq., and his brother, Hon. D S. Wlson. Washington and Jefferson College Catalogue states he was Judge until 1849.
  Occupation	From 1847	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [5]
  	lawyer in partnership with Platt Smith and his brother D. S. Wilson
  Occupation	1849-1850	Iowa   [2]
  	Judge of State Supreme Court
  Occupation	Apr 1852-1 Jan 1863	Iowa   [2, 5]
  	Judge of State District Court
  	In April 1852 he was elected without opposition Judge of the District Court, and by ssuccessive elections held the office until January 1, 1863, serving over twenty years as judge.  He held the first courts in the counties of Clayton, Delaware, Allmakee, Jones, Winneshtek, Black Hawk, Chickasaw, Bremer, Fayette and Clinton; it is stated, on good authority that Judge Wilson never had ten cases reversed during all the time he wwas on the bench. Washington & Jefferson College Catalogue states he was Judge of State District Court from 1852-1860
  Political	1866-1870	Iowa   [5]
  	Member of the Legislature
  	"He was elected two consecutive terms to the legislature in 1866 and 1868; at the session in 1866, he was tendered by the democratic members the nomination of United States senator, which he declined."
  Occupation	13 Jul 1870	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [9]
  	lawyer
  Occupation	8 Jun 1880	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [8]
  	lawyer
  Obituary	16 May 1894	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [11]
  	The Dubuque Daily Telegraph
  	page 5 column 4
  Died	16 May 1894	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [5]
  Obituary	17 May 1894	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [12]
  	The Dubuque Telegraph
  	page 5 column 6 "Judge Wilson, in the case of Choteau vs. Maloney, defeated the claim of Julien Dubuque's heirs to the city of Dubuque.  He was attorney for Maloney."
  Obituary	21 May 1894	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [11]
  	The Dubuque Weekly Times
  	page 4 column 1
  Name	T. S. Wilson  [9]
  Name	Thomas S. Wilson  [3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15]
  Name	Thomas Stokely Wilson  [4]
  Person ID	I99410	If the Legends Are True...
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2018

  
  

  Father	Peter Miller Wilson,   b. 27 Jun 1772,   d. 1829, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Frances Pope Stokeley,   b. Abt 1789, Pennsylvania ,   d. Oct 1868, Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa  (Age ~ 79 years)
  Married	23 Feb 1808
  Family ID	F35774	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anna W. Hoge,   b. Abt 1819, Ohio ,   d. 1854  (Age ~ 35 years)
  Married	29 Sep 1836  [2]
  Move	Oct 1836	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [5]
  	"... contrary to the advices and wishes of his friends, he determined to come west; having a brother - Capt. George Wilson, of the 1st United States infantry, under command of Colonel Zacharay Taylor at Prairie du'Chien.  He went there with his wife, and remained there until he could select a place of settlement; deciding to locate at Dubuque."
  Census	9 Dec 1850	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [3]
  	District 7, Page 127b, Line 23, Dwelling 1927, Family 1976: The household consisted of Thomas S. Wilson, 37, (m); Ann H. Wilson, 31, (f); Francis Wilson, 13, (f); William Wilson, 3, (m); Eliza Wilson, 1, (f); Catherine Wilson, 18, (f); Mary Galegar, 13, (f); Edmund Lennahan, 50, laborer, (m); Hugh Rooney, 11, laborer, (m); Daniel Lennahan, 17, laborer, (m). Thomas was a lawyer and declared $10,000 in real estate. His wife Anna H., declared $3,000 in real estate. According to MeasuringWorth.com, in 2019 the relative worth of $13,000 from 1850 was: $439,000.00 using the Consumer Price Index $318,000.00 using the GDP deflator $3,520,000.00 using the unskilled wage $6,900,000.00 using the Production Worker Compensation $7,640,000.00 using the nominal GDP per capita $108,000,000.00 using the relative share of GDP
  		Census of 1850 - Iowa, Dubuque County District 7, Page (254) 127b
  Alt. Marriage	Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio   [4]
  Children	Jul 1938	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa
  	3 living
  Children	1. Francis Wilson,   b. Abt 1837, Iowa ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. William Wilson,   b. Abt 1847, Iowa ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Lidie H. Wilson,   b. Abt 1849, Iowa ,   d. 12 Mar 1917, Clinton, Clinton, Iowa  (Age ~ 68 years)   4. Frank Wilson,   b. Abt 1851, Ohio ,   d. Yes, date unknown + 5. Thomas Stokeley Wilson,   b. Jul 1854, Iowa ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2021
  Family ID	F35771	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Stokeley,   b. Abt 1832, England ,   d. Bef 1880  (Age ~ 47 years)
  Census	6 Jul 1860	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [10]
  	Page 534, Line 9, Dwelling 1217, Family 1306: The household consisted of Thomas S. Wilson, 40, m; Mary Wilson, 40, f; Fanny, 20, f; William, 14, m; Eliza, 12, f; Frank, 9, m; Thomas, 6, m; Ellen Cully, 16, f, servant; Rosa Bell, 25, f, servant. Thomas S. was a district judge and declare $140,000 in real estate and $1,000 in personal estate. According to MeasuringWorth.com, in 20111: - historic standard of living value of that income or wealth is $3,940,000 - economic status value of that income or wealth is $49,500,000 - economic power value of that income or wealth is $490,000,000
  		Census of 1860 - Iowa, Dubuque County Page 534
  Married	1864  [4, 16]
  Census	13 Jul 1870	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [9]
  	Ward 3, Page 104, Line 3, Dwelling 862, Family 829: The household consisted of T. S. Wilson, 54, male; Mary, 38, female; Eliza, 22, female; Thomas, 16, male; Ernest, 5, male; William, 24, male; and Anna Lambert, 20, female, domestic. T. S. is a lawyer and declared $180,000 real estate and $2,500 personal estate. According to MeasuringWorth.com, in 2011 the relative worth of $182,500 from 1870 was: $3,250,000 by historic standard of living $45,500,000 by economic status $356,000,000 by economic power
  Census	8 Jun 1880	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [8]
  	Ward 3, Page 21, Line 10, Dwelling 181, Family 189: The household consisted of Tho. S. Wilson, 65, head; Lida A., 30, daughter; Ernest, 16, son; Agnes Finn, 20, servant; and Tho. S. Wilson, 25, son. Thomas senior and junior are lawyers.  Ernest works in the telegraph office. The next 'household' on the census appears to be a convent, the Sisters of Saint Francis.
  Residence	Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa   [17]
  	1614 White Street
  Children	1. Ernest Wilson,   b. Abt 1865, Iowa ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2020
  Family ID	F35803	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  (Research): I might also add that Judge Wilson had a nephew that I new in Missouri, George Wilson, a banker at Lexington, who was a man of decided intellectual parts; that he had another nephew in Kansas City, Missouri, B. Wells, a learned lawyer, who was one of Edwin M. Stanton's Secretaries during the War of the Great Rebellion; that he had a niece at Dubuque, Rebecca Wells, one of the brightest, as well as one of the loveliest of women, who be came the wife of the distinguished iowa Editor, M. M. Ham, of the Dubuque Herald - both long since dead; and that he himself had a daughter who was regarded as one of the most charming and gifted ladies in Dubuque. [18, 19]

  
  

• Reference

  If the Legends Are True... by J. Craig Canada, "Thomas Stokeley Wilson" (accessed January 22, 2021) | http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I99410&tree=Legends.