Before he was two, the family moved to Augusta, Georgia.Wilson's earliest memory was of playing in his yard and standing near the front gate of the Augusta parsonage at the age of three, when he heard a passerby announce in disgust that Abraham Lincoln had been elected and that a war was coming. He was also elected secretary of the school's football association, president of the school's baseball association, and managing editor of the student newspaper. In 1909, Princeton's board accepted a gift made to the graduate school campaign subject to the graduate school being located off campus.Wilson became disenchanted with his job due to the resistance to his recommendations, and he began considering a run for office.