Samuel J. Wilson

Samuel Jennings Wilson was a clergyman and academic in Western Pennsylvania.

Biography

Wilson was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, on July 19, 1828, and attended Washington & [Jefferson College|Washington College] and was a student and teacher at the Western Theological Seminary in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, for over 25 years, serving as chair of sacred and ecclesiastical history. He served as a delegate to various national and world-wide conferences of the Presbyterian Church. He served President Pro Tem. for Washington & Jefferson College from April 20, 1869, to August 4, 1869. After his death from typhoid in 1883, he was called "one of the abelest and most learned ministers in the Presbyterian Church."