Son of Thomas H. Wilson & Adelaide Louise Bagby
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Sam O. Wilson, Pioneer Printer Of Mobile, Dies
Funeral Services To Be Held For Long-Time Leader on Thursday
Samuel Oliphant Wilson, whose nimble fingers as a typesetter helped to keep Mobilians informed of news of the world for 42 years, died early Tuesday afternoon at his residence, 203 N. Franklin St.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Higgins Mortuary with interment in Magnolia Cemetery.
Mr. Wilson, 73 years of age, spent virtually his entire life in the printing business. He was one of Mobile's oldest printers, from a standpoint of service, up to his recent retirement. He had been ill three months.
For several years he served as president of the Mobile local of the International Typographical Union and, throughout many years of his life, took an active part in union affairs.
He was only 12 years of age when he first broken into the printing end of newspapers-back in the days of hand-set type. Since then, the millions of words he set into bold type to serve Mobile's newspaper reading public have been words of war and weddings, births and deaths, joy and tragedy.
Mr. Wilson was born in Enterprise, Miss, on Oct. 10, 1871. He became a member of the Meridian Miss., ITU on April 14, 1898. In 1903, he moved to Mobile where he had been a resident since.
He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs Thomas Hamilton Wilson. His mother, the former Adelaide Louise Bagby, was a daughter of one of Alabama's early governors. Mr. Wilson's wife, Mrs. Mary Antonia Repoll Wilson, died in Mobile in 1937.
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Fred Padgett, Mrs. H. A. Nordman, Mrs. Harry F. Ryan and Mrs. Marguerite Green Godwin; four sons, John Wilson, U.S. Army, Samuel O. Wilson, Jr., Thomas Joseph Hickey and George H. Green.
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Sam O. Wilson, Pioneer Printer Of Mobile, Dies
Funeral Services To Be Held For Long-Time Leader on Thursday
Samuel Oliphant Wilson, whose nimble fingers as a typesetter helped to keep Mobilians informed of news of the world for 42 years, died early Tuesday afternoon at his residence, 203 N. Franklin St.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Higgins Mortuary with interment in Magnolia Cemetery.
Mr. Wilson, 73 years of age, spent virtually his entire life in the printing business. He was one of Mobile's oldest printers, from a standpoint of service, up to his recent retirement. He had been ill three months.
For several years he served as president of the Mobile local of the International Typographical Union and, throughout many years of his life, took an active part in union affairs.
He was only 12 years of age when he first broken into the printing end of newspapers-back in the days of hand-set type. Since then, the millions of words he set into bold type to serve Mobile's newspaper reading public have been words of war and weddings, births and deaths, joy and tragedy.
Mr. Wilson was born in Enterprise, Miss, on Oct. 10, 1871. He became a member of the Meridian Miss., ITU on April 14, 1898. In 1903, he moved to Mobile where he had been a resident since.
He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs Thomas Hamilton Wilson. His mother, the former Adelaide Louise Bagby, was a daughter of one of Alabama's early governors. Mr. Wilson's wife, Mrs. Mary Antonia Repoll Wilson, died in Mobile in 1937.
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Fred Padgett, Mrs. H. A. Nordman, Mrs. Harry F. Ryan and Mrs. Marguerite Green Godwin; four sons, John Wilson, U.S. Army, Samuel O. Wilson, Jr., Thomas Joseph Hickey and George H. Green.
Son of Thomas H. Wilson & Adelaide Louise Bagby
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Sam O. Wilson, Pioneer Printer Of Mobile, Dies
Funeral Services To Be Held For Long-Time Leader on Thursday
Samuel Oliphant Wilson, whose nimble fingers as a typesetter helped to keep Mobilians informed of news of the world for 42 years, died early Tuesday afternoon at his residence, 203 N. Franklin St.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Higgins Mortuary with interment in Magnolia Cemetery.
Mr. Wilson, 73 years of age, spent virtually his entire life in the printing business. He was one of Mobile's oldest printers, from a standpoint of service, up to his recent retirement. He had been ill three months.
For several years he served as president of the Mobile local of the International Typographical Union and, throughout many years of his life, took an active part in union affairs.
He was only 12 years of age when he first broken into the printing end of newspapers-back in the days of hand-set type. Since then, the millions of words he set into bold type to serve Mobile's newspaper reading public have been words of war and weddings, births and deaths, joy and tragedy.
Mr. Wilson was born in Enterprise, Miss, on Oct. 10, 1871. He became a member of the Meridian Miss., ITU on April 14, 1898. In 1903, he moved to Mobile where he had been a resident since.
He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs Thomas Hamilton Wilson. His mother, the former Adelaide Louise Bagby, was a daughter of one of Alabama's early governors. Mr. Wilson's wife, Mrs. Mary Antonia Repoll Wilson, died in Mobile in 1937.
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Fred Padgett, Mrs. H. A. Nordman, Mrs. Harry F. Ryan and Mrs. Marguerite Green Godwin; four sons, John Wilson, U.S. Army, Samuel O. Wilson, Jr., Thomas Joseph Hickey and George H. Green.
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Sam O. Wilson, Pioneer Printer Of Mobile, Dies
Funeral Services To Be Held For Long-Time Leader on Thursday
Samuel Oliphant Wilson, whose nimble fingers as a typesetter helped to keep Mobilians informed of news of the world for 42 years, died early Tuesday afternoon at his residence, 203 N. Franklin St.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Higgins Mortuary with interment in Magnolia Cemetery.
Mr. Wilson, 73 years of age, spent virtually his entire life in the printing business. He was one of Mobile's oldest printers, from a standpoint of service, up to his recent retirement. He had been ill three months.
For several years he served as president of the Mobile local of the International Typographical Union and, throughout many years of his life, took an active part in union affairs.
He was only 12 years of age when he first broken into the printing end of newspapers-back in the days of hand-set type. Since then, the millions of words he set into bold type to serve Mobile's newspaper reading public have been words of war and weddings, births and deaths, joy and tragedy.
Mr. Wilson was born in Enterprise, Miss, on Oct. 10, 1871. He became a member of the Meridian Miss., ITU on April 14, 1898. In 1903, he moved to Mobile where he had been a resident since.
He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs Thomas Hamilton Wilson. His mother, the former Adelaide Louise Bagby, was a daughter of one of Alabama's early governors. Mr. Wilson's wife, Mrs. Mary Antonia Repoll Wilson, died in Mobile in 1937.
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Fred Padgett, Mrs. H. A. Nordman, Mrs. Harry F. Ryan and Mrs. Marguerite Green Godwin; four sons, John Wilson, U.S. Army, Samuel O. Wilson, Jr., Thomas Joseph Hickey and George H. Green.
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