Greene-Monroe County IN Archives Biographies.....Humphrey, Wilson 1818 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   WILSON HUMPHREY, a native of Gallia County, Ohio, was born December 13, 1818.
At the age of six years, he removed with his parents to Monroe County, Ind., and
from there to Greene County on the White River, and finally to where he now
resides in 1831. In 1860, he was united in marriage with Miss Sophia Turner who
was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1837, a daughter of William and Martha
(King) Turner who were natives respectively, of Pennsylvania and Ireland. The
children born to this union are William F., George E., Wilson T., Dora A.,
Clement V., T. M., Charles E. and Annie Y. Mr. Humphrey is not only one of the
well known and highly esteemed of the old settlers of Greene County, but is also
one of the well-to-do men of Stockton Township. In 1863 and 1865, he was elected
Township Trustee, and in 1871 and 1880 he was elected one of the County
Commissioners. His father, William Humphrey, was born in Henry County, W. Va.,
in 1784, and died January 14, 1854. He removed to Ohio when but a lad, and was
there married to Clarissa Lotz, who was born in 1787, and died in the year 1872.
The children born to William Humphrey and wife were Sarah, Madison, Wilson,
Ansel, Jared, Annie and Margaret. The mother of Mrs. Clarissa Humphrey was a
sister of Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham, an eminent lawyer, statesman and editor
of Ohio, whose history is familiar to all well posted citizens of the United States.

Additional Comments:
Stockton Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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