A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > New York > New York http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=708 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=48815 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Macon Daily Telegraph Article Date: May 17 1907 Article Description: Gen. James G. WILSON Marries Second Wife. Article Text: New York, May 16.--A wedding of great interest to army and navy circles took place in this city today, when Mrs. Mary H. NICHOLSON, widow of Rear Admiral John W. A. NICHOLSON, became the bride of Gen. James Grant WILSON. The wedding was celebrated at the home of the bride in West Seventy-ninth street and was attended by many prominent officers of the army and navy. General WILSON, who is now 75 years old and nearly twenty years the senior of his bride, was married before, his first wife, whom he married in 1860, being a Miss COGSWELL, a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Gen. WILSON has been known as an author as well as a soldier. In 1857 he went to Chicago and founded the first literary journal published in the Northwest. In 1862 he was commissioned major of the Fifteenth Illinois cavalry, becoming colonel soon afterward. During the Presidency of Gen. GRANT he was in charge of social arrangements at the White House. It is an interesting coincidence that when Gen. WILSON was a colonel under Gen. GRANT one of his most intimate friends was Admiral NICHOLSON, the husband of Mrs. NICHOLSON, whom Gen. WILSON has now made his bride. Gen. WILSON is known in Macon. He made the raid across from Columbus to Macon, capturing this town after LEE and JOHNSTON has surrendered. When notified out on the Columbus road by a flag of truce from Gen. Howell COBB of the collapsed condition of the Confederacy he refused to believe it, and gave COBB five minutes to capitulate. He was here again in command of 7,000 troops during the Spanish American war, and saved the city from being shot-up by negro troops. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com