Joseph Ruggles Wilson graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1844.
10 Facts About Joseph Ruggles Wilson
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Joseph Ruggles Wilson married Jessie Woodrow and was later employed as a professor at Hampden-Sydney College.
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Joseph Ruggles Wilson left the school just before the birth of his son, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, in Staunton, Virginia.
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Joseph and Jessie Wilson had moved to the South in 1851 and came to fully identify with it, moving from Virginia deeper into the region as Wilson was called to be a minister in Georgia and South Carolina.
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Joseph Wilson owned slaves, defended slavery, and set up a Sunday school for his slaves.
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In 1861 Joseph Ruggles Wilson was one of the founders of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States after it split from the northern Presbyterians.
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Joseph Ruggles Wilson served as the first permanent clerk of the PCUS General Assembly, was Stated Clerk for more than three decades from 1865 to 1898, and was Moderator of the PCUS General Assembly in 1879.
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Joseph Ruggles Wilson became minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia, serving until 1870.
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Joseph Ruggles Wilson became a professor at Columbia Theological Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1870.
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Joseph Ruggles Wilson moved to the pastorate at the First Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, North Carolina in 1874.