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Henry Wilson reunited with his sister after 39 years

The Jacksonville Daily Journal (Jacksonville, IL)

November 4, 1903

FINDS SISTER AFTER YEARS.

To meet a sister after a separation of thirty-nine years is the recent experience of Henry Wilson, the colored butler who has been at the executive mansion through the administrations of Governors Ogles-by, Altgeld, Tanner and Yates. Wilson was born a slave in Missouri in 1855 and was held with his mother for more than…

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