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o Jane Terry, who died in 1874, and in 1878 to Julia Hollis, he has seven children living. Hugh Wilson, editor and proprietor of the Press and Banner, of Abbeville, S. C., was born in that State irents 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 thof 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 pafirst-class weekly, with the exception of the war period, when its publication was suspended. Mr. Wilson volunteered in Company G, Nineteenth South Carolina regiment, at the time of its organization s original paper under the name of the Abbeville Press and Banner. For the past fifteen years Mr. Wilson has been editor and proprietor of this paper, and is also a director of the Abbeville cotton m