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until recent years but is now fallen. He
married Sarah Howard, a descendant of
brave Indian fighters. Their son, John
Peeso, born about 1790, in Belchertown,
was the father of Ruth Peeso, who became
the wife of James Austin Hawks;
they were the parents of Annie Elizabeth
Hawks, who became the wife of Edward
Everett Wilson, of Biddeford, Maine. He
lived for some time in Palmer, Massachu-
setts, whence he removed to Hartford,
Connecticut, where he was for many
years engaged in the insurance business.
He is living there at the present time
(I9I7)-
Dr. James Cornelius Wilson, son of Edward
Everett and Annie Elizabeth
(Hawks) Wilson, was born May 10, 1881,
in Palmer, Massachusetts, and when two
years of age removed with his father to
Hartford, and the public schools of that
city supplied his early education. In
1900 he entered the University of Vermont
at Burlington, Vermont, where he
pursued a medical course and was gradu-
ated in 1904. For about a year he practiced
his profession at Hinesburg, Ver-
mont, and removed thence to Hartford,
where he became an interne in the Hart-
ford Hospital, continuing two years, thus
gaining a most profitable experience in
preparation for his subsequently success-
ful career. He has continued in practice
to the present time in Hartford, for five
years was police surgeon, and is at pres-
ent, medical examiner for the town of
Bloomfield, Connecticut. Dr. Wilson is
an assiduous student, keeps abreast of
the times, and has been extremely successful
in practice. He has given much
time to the care of patients in the Newington
Home for Incurables without com-
pensation. He was one of the first to in-
troduce the bone-grafting operation in
this section, and has attained a high repu-
tation as a surgeon and specialist in the
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treatment of bone disorders. He is a
member of Patriot Lodge, No. 33, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Hinesburg, Vermont,
a member of the Hartford City
Club, and Hartford City Medical Society,
Hartford County Medical Society, the
Hartford Orthopedic Medical Society, and
of the Connecticut State Medical Society.
He is also a member of the Congregational
church, and in politics is a Repub-
lican.
Dr. Wilson married, December 15, 1908,
Nellie Beatrice Armstrong, daughter of
Andrew and Minnie (Willingale) Armstrong,
of St. John, New Brunswick.
ANDERSON, James Reed,
Agriculturist.
Mr. Anderson's father, William Ander-
son, was a Scotchman, who settled in the
city of New Orleans, where he was a
cotton inspector, a man of prominence,
and died in 1844. He was a slave holder,
and one of his chattels, who was a house
servant, came with his widow to Wethersfield,
where she lived many years and
died at the Anderson home. He married,
in 1840, Hannah Belden Welles, who with
her sister had gone from Wethersfield to
New Orleans, where they kept a millinery
store. In 1856 she returned to Wethers-
field, where she continued to reside until
her death on the homestead which had
belonged for many generations to her
father's family. She was born February
4, 1804, in Wethersfield, a descendant of
Governor Thomas Welles, who was one
of the most active and valuable citizens
in the pioneer colony on the Connecticut
river.
Governor Thomas Welles was born in
1598, in Essex county, England, and his
property there was confiscated for polit-
ical reasons. He came to America as
secretary to Lords Say and Seal, located