WILSON, Henry Parke Custis, physician, born in Workington, Somerset County, Maryland, 5 March, 1827. His Scotch-Irish ancestors emigrated to this country in 1700 from Ireland, being driven out by religious persecution, and founded the first Presbyterian church in this country at Rehoboth, Somerset County, Maryland Henry was graduated at Princeton in 1848, studied medicine at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland, and settled in Baltimore. Dr. Wilson has contributed numerous articles on gynecology and obstetrics to the medical journals and the transactions of medical societies, and has invented important and useful gynecological instruments. In 1856-'7 he was physician to the Baltimore county and city almshouse. He is president and one of the founders of the Baltimore gynecological and obstetrical society, has been president of the medical and chirurgical faculty of Maryland and the Baltimore academy of medicine, vice-president and one of the founders of the American gynecological society, and vice-president of the American medical association. He is a fellow of the British gynecological society and the British medical association, and of numerous other local and national medical societies.