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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
d proprietor of the Press and Banner, of Abbeville, S. C., was born in that State in Laurens county, November 1, 1838. His father, whose name is also Hugh, came with his parents from Scotland to America when only three years old and settled first in Newberry county. Mr. Wilson's grandfather, also named Hugh, was one of the three men who built the first cotton mill in that section of South Carolina on Raburn's creek, Laurens county, in 1829. He died in 1836. The mother of Mr. Wilson was Mary Godfrey, who died shortly after the close of the civil war. During his infancy his parents moved to Abbeville county, which has been his home ever since. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to learn the printer's trade at Due West, S. C., and after serving three years he worked for a time at his trade. He purchased in 1859 the Independent Press, whose name he changed to the Abbeville Press, and has published this paper ever since as a first-class weekly, with the exception of the war period