Joseph Ruggles Wilson

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Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Sr.

Born	February 28, 1822 Steubenville, Ohio
Died	January 21, 1903(1903-01-21) (aged 80) Princeton, New Jersey
Education	Jefferson College Princeton Theological Seminary
Children	Woodrow Wilson Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Jr.

Church	Presbyterian

Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Sr. (February 28, 1822 – January 21, 1903)^[1] was a prominent Presbyterian theologian and father of President Woodrow Wilson and of Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Jr..^[2]

Wilson graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (now Washington & Jefferson College) in 1844.^[3] He taught belles-lettres at Washington & Jefferson.^[4] Wilson was later employed as a Professor at Hampden-Sydney College and left the school just before the birth of his son, Thomas Woodrow Wilson in Staunton, Virginia. There he became the pastor of Staunton’s Presbyterian Church, which he held from 1855-1857. In late 1857 after performing the wedding of his brother-in-law, James Woodrow, he moved his family to Augusta, Georgia, where he continued to practice as a Presbyterian pastor.^[5]

He died in 1903.

Children

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924), US President
Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Jr. (1867 - 1927), an editor of the Nashville Banner
Anne E. Wilson Howe ^[6]

References

↑ http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/timeline/ImageDisplay.asp?ID=23
↑ Dodd, William Edward (1920). Woodrow Wilson and his Work. Doubleday, Page & Company. p. 3.
↑ "Jefferson College 1802-1865". U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives. Washington & Jefferson College. Archived from the original on 2009-05-01.
↑ Coleman, Helen Turnbull Waite (1956). Banners in the Wilderness: The Early Years of Washington and Jefferson College. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 85–91. OCLC 2191890.
↑ Montgomery, Erick D. "Woodrow Wilson in Georgia". The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
↑ "President Wilson At His Sister .At Close Of Service He Places Flowers...". The Star and Sentinel. September 19, 1916. Retrieved 2010-10-06. "The plot in which the remains were interred is also the resting place of her husband and Joseph Ruggles Wilson and wife, father and mother of the family. ..."

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Presidency	Presidency of Woodrow Wilson 1913 inauguration 1917 inauguration American entry into World War I Fourteen Points Paris Peace Conference, 1919 League of Nations Shadow Lawn Judicial appointments Supreme Court appointments

Legacy	Postage stamp Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library

Books	Congressional Government When a Man Comes to Himself The New Freedom

Elections	1910 (Governorship) 1912 / 1916 (Presidency)

Popular culture	Wilson (film)

Family	Ellen Axson Wilson (wife, 1885-1914; her death) Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (wife, 1915-1924) Margaret Wilson (daughter) Jessie Wilson Sayre (daughter) Eleanor Wilson McAdoo (daughter) William Gibbs McAdoo (son-in-law) Joseph Ruggles Wilson (father) Jessie Janet Woodrow (mother)

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Persondata
Name	Wilson, Joseph R.
Alternative names
Short description	Father of US President
Date of birth	February 28, 1822
Place of birth	Steubenville, Ohio
Date of death	January 21, 1903
Place of death	Princeton, New Jersey

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