Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-02
DEATH OF A VETERAN
COL. WILLIAM MILTON WILSON
PASSES AWAY.
Member of Board of Pension Appeals,
Interior Department-Native
of North Carolina

Mr.. Edwin w. Huguely of this city has
received tidings of the death, at Perry,
Iowa, Saturday last, of Colonel William
Milton Wilson, a member of the board of
pension appeals. Interior Department
Colonel Wilson was born April %, 1873, in
Guilford county, North Carolina. Renov-
ing westward in his early manhood he To-
Gated on farm near New Virginia, Iowa
June IL, 1861, he enlisted as a volunteer in
Company D. 1st Regiment, Iowa Cavalry,
In which he rendered an unbroken and ar
duous service of three years and two
months. Shortly after his return from the
service he was married to Miss Martha
Fleming of Polk county. Iowa. In 1869 he
was admitted to the bar, and in 1870 he be-
gan the practice of law at Osceola, Iowa,
of which city he was elected mayor in 1876.
In 1880 he was elected to the Iowa state
senate from the fifth district, comprising
Union, Clarke and Lucas counties, and serv-
ed number of terms.
AS a delegate from the eighth Iowa dis
trict he was member of the republican
national convention, which convened in Chi
cago, June g. 1884. In 1886 he was elected
lieutenant colonel of the 9th Regiment,
Iowa National Guards. resigning in 1890.
Appointed Assistant Attorney.
April Is, 1890. he received an appointment
as an assistant attorney in the Interior De-
partment, but upon the change in the ad-
ministration rendered his resignation in
1898, and resumed the practice of the law
at Osceola, Iowa, having in the meantime
been admitted to practice before the Su-
preme Court Of the United States
July 10, 1899, he was reappointed from the
eighth Iowa district as an assistant attor-
ney In the Interior Department, where he
rendered efficient and important service
until June %. 1902, when he was appointed
a member of the board of pension appeals
which position he held until the time Of
his death.
His health began to fail about one year
ago, but after recuperating through the
summer and fall in Iowa and Dakota, he
resumed his duties. Shortly after the hol-
idays, however, he suffered a relapse and
March Is, accompanied by his wife, he re-
turned to his old home hoping to regain
health and strength. His i'll health con-
tinued, however but his courage and in
domitable will. kept him up until the cele-
%, brought to him all his surviving chill
dren, after which he calmly awaited the
end
AS citizen and sosser, husband and IA
ther lawyer and official, he had done his
whole duty; and aside from that to the
full limit of his powers and his means,
1t is conceded, he labored with broad mind
and public spirit to improve the social con-
dtions existing around him. In all re-
lations he was kind and eminently fair to
all, yet prompt to resent and fearless in
opposing imposition wrong.
Col. Wilson's wife. Mrs. Martha Wilson;
three sons Ulysses Sherman Wilson of Os-
ceola, Iowa; William Walter Wilson of the
finance division of the Post Office Depart
ment, this city, and Rc.a.i Asa Wilson
of Plankington. South Dakota; and three
daughters, Mrs. Nancy Gilbert of Salem,
South Dakota, Mrs. Lulu Phipps of Perry,
Iowa. and Mrs. Ethel Huguely of this city
survive him.
Arrangements have been made by the
clerks in the Office in which Col. Wilson
had served. to hold meeting tomorrow for