Biography

1799 - 12/19/1864

WILSON, Abraham Scott, a Representative from Juniata, Mifflin and Union Counties; born, 1799 in Chillisquaque Township (now West Chillisquaque Township), Northumberland County, Pa.; attended, Sunbury Academy; read law, W.W. Potter; lawyer (1821-1864); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1840 term, not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1841 term; gubernatorial appointee, president judge, Huntingdon, Mifflin and Union Counties (1842-1851); elected, president judge, Mifflin and Union Counties (1852-1861); died, December 19, 1864 in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Church Hill Cemetery, Reedsville, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.