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Parents: Osborn and Susan (Clapp) Willson
Children: Grace Willson, Fred Wolfe Willson, Albert Jason Willson
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OriginalNotes: Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana 1812 to 1912. By the Lewis Publishing Company, 1914.  Page737-740: birth date and place, parents, married Sabrina Wolfe on September 19, 1860; "Born in the same house in which his eleven brothers and sisters had first seen the light of day, Jason Willson passed his boyhood and youth on the home farm, in the meantime securing a thorough education in the common schools. At the age of eighteen years he embarked upon a career of his own, adopting the profession of educator, in which all of his parents' children were engaged at one time or another. For eight years he was engaged in teaching during the winter months, while in the summer he followed the vocation of farming, but his youthful ambition to better himself in life made him dissatisfied with the small wages and meager opportunities offered in his calling and eventually he relinquished it to become a traveling photographer. From 1853 to 1859 he was engaged in making daguerreotypes in various parts of the East, West and South, and while thus engaged, in the year 1859, came to Muncie, Indiana. Constantly on the lookout for a more profitable business, he recognized the opportunity for the establishment of a grocery business in Muncie, and continued to conduct this with remarkable success, for some two years."

Biographical Memoirs of Grant County, Indiana, Bowen, 1901, p. 251-252: "But the wages paid country teachers were very meager and Mr. Willson being ambitious to make money was on the lookout for a more renumerative field of labor, and thus, from 1853 to 1859, engaged as a traveling photographer, making daguerreotypes for people in many different states, east, south and west, -- a vocation which he found both pleasant and lucrative. But he was still dissatisfied and longed for a more profitable business, and so in 1859 he embarked in the grocery business at Muncie and met with marked success. 

Find A Grave 79835507 Jason Willson - b. November 23, 1826 in New York, died March 10, 1913, Grant County, Indiana, buried Estates of Serentity in Marion, Indiana, son of Osborn Willson and Susan Clapp; wife Sabrina Wolfe, children Grace, Fred Wolfe Willson, Albert Jason Willson
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OriginalSource: Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana 1812 to 1912. By the Lewis Publishing Company, 1914.  Page737-740:  "For eight years he was engaged in teaching during the winter months, while in the summer he followed the vocation of farming, but his youthful ambition to better himself in life made him dissatisfied with the small wages and meager opportunities offered in his calling and eventually he relinquished it to become a traveling photographer. From 1853 to 1859 he was engaged in making daguerreotypes in various parts of the East, West and South, and while thus engaged, in the year 1859, came to Muncie, Indiana. Constantly on the lookout for a more profitable business, he recognized the opportunity for the establishment of a grocery business in Muncie, and continued to conduct this with remarkable success, for some two years."
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OriginalSource: Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana 1812 to 1912. By the Lewis Publishing Company, 1914.  Page737-740: married Sabrina Wolfe on September 19, 1860 in Muncie; "For eight years he was engaged in teaching during the winter months, while in the summer he followed the vocation of farming, but his youthful ambition to better himself in life made him dissatisfied with the small wages and meager opportunities offered in his calling and eventually he relinquished it to become a traveling photographer. From 1853 to 1859 he was engaged in making daguerreotypes in various parts of the East, West and South, and while thus engaged, in the year 1859, came to Muncie, Indiana. Constantly on the lookout for a more profitable business, he recognized the opportunity for the establishment of a grocery business in Muncie, and continued to conduct this with remarkable success, for some two years."

Biographical Memoirs of Grant County, Indiana, Bowen, 1901, p. 251-252: "But the wages paid country teachers were very meager and Mr. Willson being ambitious to make money was on the lookout for a more renumerative field of labor, and thus, from 1853 to 1859, engaged as a traveling photographer, making daguerreotypes for people in many different states, east, south and west, -- a vocation which he found both pleasant and lucrative. But he was still dissatisfied and longed for a more profitable business, and so in 1859 he embarked in the grocery business at Muncie and met with marked success.
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