The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-28
DEATH OF G. ". WILSON
Arrangements for the Funeral Of
the Late Commissioner.
i Special Train VIII Carry the Re-
mains to Hamilton, Ohio, for Inter
the Riggs ACKNOWLEDGMENT to BE
Chosen From Bureau Associates.

Arrangements LOT the funeral OIL GeOrSe
w. Wilson, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue. who died yesterday morning in
his apartments at the Riggs House. were
completed last night. Funeral services
will be held this afternoon at 1 O'Clock in
the parlors at the Riggs under the direc-
tion of Columbia Commandery, No. 2,
Knights of Templar. of which Mr.. Wilson
was member. The pallbearers will be
chosen from Mr.. Wilson's associates in
the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Immediately after the conclusion of the
service the remains will be taken to the
Pennsylvania depot, where special car
for the use of the funeral party will be
attached to the regular west-bound train
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad,
which leaves Washington at 3 o'clock.
Hamilton. Ohio. Mr.. Wilson's former
home, will be reached shortly after 10
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Here the funeral services will be car
ried out under the direction of the
Blue Lodge Of Masons of which Mr.. Will
son had long been member. The re-
mains will be taken directly from the
train to the Hamilton Cemetery, where
interment will occur.
Mrs. Pardoner. of New York; Colonel
Williams. Acting Commissioner Of In
ternal Revenue. and William Bowen,
Chief of Revenue Agents. will accompany
the remains to Hamilton.
The cause of Mr.. Wilson's death was
Brights disease, aggravated by n severe
cold contracted several days ago while he
was riding on an open car en- route to the
Capitol. where he appeared before the
Republican members of the Ways and
Means Committee regarding the proposed
revision of the war revenue tax. His
health had not been good for the past two
years, but the malady assumed acute form
Thursday night. DR.. Gardiner was sum
moned and Drs. Richards and Perkins
were later called in consultation. His
condition was considered serious. and his
wife and daughter were notified. the for
mer reaching the bedside Friday night
and the latter Saturday afternoon. 1t was
not until yesterday, however. that his
condition was regarded as critical. He
suffered great pain. but retained con-
seriousness until last Monday night.
There were present at the bedside when
morning. in addition to Mrs. Wilson and
Mrs. Pardoner. John T. Bivins, Chief
Clerk of the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
and other officers of that division.
Mr.. Wilson was appointed Commissioner
of Internal Revenue March l. 1899, 10 sue
coed Nathan B. Scott, at present United
States Senator from West Virginia.
George Washington Wilson was born in
Preble county Ohio in 1Si3. He was rear
ed on farm and had a few months
schooling before the civil war. He served
from the beginning to the end of the war
in the Fifty-fourth Ohio Regiment as pri-
vate. corporal, sergeant, commissary SER
geant. lieutenant and adjutant of the reg
iment. He was wounded three times at
the battle of Nickajack Creek, Ga, July,
1863.
AT the close OF the civil war he took a
special course at Wesleyan University.
read law, and was admitted to the bar at
Eaton. Preble county, Ohio. He entered
the internal revenue service as gauger
in the Third district of Ohio N 1869. and
served in that capacity and as special
gauger and revenue agent until 1886. He
then resigned and became attorney for
the California Internal Revenue Tax
payers. He re-entered the service on APP
pointment as Deputy Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue from Hamilton, Butler
county Ohio. in 1889, and served in that
capacity until he was appointed Commits
sioner.