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WILSON, Samuel Farmer, journalist, born in Connecticut in 1805; died in New Orleans, Louisiana, 11 March, 1870. He was graduated at Columbia in 1822, studied law in New York city, was admitted to the bar there in 1826, and at Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1828. removed from that place to New Berne, and from there to Mobile, Alabama., in 1832, where he abandoned law to become joint editor of the "Register." He went to New Orleans in 1849, and joined the staff of the " Crescent," connected himself with the "Picayune" in the following year, and became a joint owner and the chief editorial writer of that newspaper. For several terms he was a member of the Louisiana legislature. He was the author of a "History of the American Revolution," which passed through several editions (Baltimore, 1834).
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