WILSON, JOHN A: United Presbyterian; b. at Pleasantville, Pa., Oct. 4, 1839. He was graduated from Westminster College, Pa. (A.B., 1864), and, after studying law and practising for two years, from Alleghany Theological Seminary (1872); he then held pastorates at Beaver, Pa. (1872-76); St. Louis (1876-86), and Wooster, O. (1886-93), and since 1893 has been professor of church history and pastoral theology at Alleghany Theological Seminary, Pittsburg.

WILSON, JOHN LEIGHTON: Presbyterian, Southern Church; b. in Sumter County, S. C., Mar. 25, 1809; d. near Mayesville, S. C., July 13, 1886. He was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., 1829, and from Columbia Theological Seminary, S. C., 1833; was foreign missionary in Western Africa, 1834-53; secretary of Foreign Missions for the Presbyterian Church, New York, 1853-61; for the Southern Presbyterian Church, Columbia, S. C., 1861-85, and secretary emeritus, 1885-86. He was instrumental in breaking up the slave-trade in Africa. He made a grammar and dictionary of the Grebo and Mpongwe languages, and translated parts of the Bible. He edited The Foreign Record, New York, 1853-61, and The Missionary, Baltimore, 1861-85. He wrote Western, Africa: Its History, Condition, and Prospects (New York, 1857).

WILSON, JOSEPH DAWSON: Reformed Episcopolian; b. in New York City July 9, 1840. He was educated at the College of the City of New York (then called the Free Academy), St. Stephen's College, Annandale, N. Y. (B.A., 1863), and the General Theological Seminary (graduated, 1866); was ordained to the priesthood of the Protestant Episcopal Church; he was curate of St. Luke's, New York City (1866-67), and rector o£ Calvary, Pittsburg, Pa. (1867-74). He then left the Protestant Episcopal Church for Reformed Episcopalianism, and was rector of Christ Church, Peoria, Ill. (1874-1879); St. John's, Chicago (1879-95); acting rec-

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for of the Church of Our Lord, Victoria, B. C. (1895-1901); and since 1901 has been professor of history and apologetics at the Reformed Episcopal Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. In theology he is a moderate Calvinist and a conservative, and has written Words from the Cross (sermons, Chicago, 1881) and Did Daniel Write Daniel? (New York, 1906).

WILSON, LUTHER BARTON: Methodist Episcopal bishop; b. at Baltimore, Md., Nov. 14, 1856. He was educated at Dickinson College (A.B., 1875) and at the School of Medicine of the University of Maryland (M.D., 1877). In 1878 he entered the Baltimore Annual Conference of his denomination and held pastorates at Hancock, Woodberry, and Baltimore, Md., and at Washington, D. C. He was presiding elder of the Washington District of the Baltimore Conference in 1894-1900 and of the West Baltimore District in 1903-04, and was elected bishop in 1904.