The subject of this sketch, who died at his residence in the Parkinson property, Barr Street, McDonald, December 20th, was in many respects a remarkable man. Being a person of good mind and fine taste, he had as far as possible during the sixty-six years of his life stood aloof as a thoughtful and rather melancholy observer from the rude, boisterous, and ill directed activities of the crude life around him. He was a worker in wood and a master hand at whatever he gave his mind to, and so unwillingly was he to spoil good timber and half-do work that he said only wasted material and marred landscape, that he could be induced with no money to engage in the rude of rank and file carpenters around him, who forever in a hurried panic, without forethought, design, or satisfactory result, were constructing dwellings and business blocks that he considered inimical to all the first principles of art. And so as an ax-man he found most pleasure alone with himself in the woods. He wa! s a great reader and thinker. The habit of his mind was logical, and it was a pleasure to listen to his deliberate utterances of the well defined thoughts he had forged in his solitude. Mr. WILSON spent his boyhood on a small homestead near SMITH's Mills, on the B. & O. Railroad, in North Strabane Township, to which place his father, who was originally from Derry, Ireland, had come when Thomas was five years old. His mother's name was MCCORKLE and was connected with the MCDONOUGHs, BERRYs, HARTs, WEIRs, HULTZes, THOMASes, and other old families still in that country. He was a second cousin of Cashier G. S. CAMPBELL and also of Mr. HULTZ, the young business partner of 'Squire MAY, who died of typhoid fever in McDonald a few years ago. When a youth he went to Pittsburg and learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner. In 1847 he was married to Miss Eliza Ann MCCLAINE, who family had come to Pittsburg from the East--a people noted for ability in intellectual pursuits. Her ! father was the inventor of the first power threshing machine in this c ountry, long known as the "bunty machine," and she herself was a person of unusual education and culture. There were six children by this first marriage. Four died in infancy. Alice L., the eldest, is the wife of Mr. Samuel AYERS, of East Noblestown Street; Robert Burns is a resident of Frankfort, Ky., unmarried, and a man with a national reputation as an artist and writer. Many of his productions have been published in the Century Magazine. The WILSON family lived in Pittsburg, at SMITH's Mills, (where the poet and artist Robert BURNS was born) at Washington, and at West Alexander, where the wife died and was buried. In after years Mr. WILSON was married to Miss AYERS, a daughter of Mr. John AYERS, of Jumbo. They lived in Mansfield; in '72 they removed to Venice; in '85 removed to McDonald. By this marriage were born two daughters--Ella J., wife of Edward JUDD and Harriet wife of Mr. ROBERTSON, well known citizens of this place. Mr. WILSON was always a consistent member of the U. P. Church; while in Mansfield served as an elder.