Henry I. Wilson
It began with Henry, the son of Ephraim Wilson and Elizabeth Bowen Hathaway of Westboro, Massachusetts. During the Civil War, he and his brother Thomas enlisted in the Massachusetts Cavalary, Henry being a member of Company F. 4th Cavalry. After the war he traveled to Maine and set up stakes at the East Outlet around 1865, traveled to Canada on a fur-trapping expedition where he met his future wife, Maria H. Dall, in Quebec. Of their six children, there were twins that died at birth, Lillian, Charles, Alfred and Elizabeth. Charles operated the family business for a short time but then went on to become a Maine game warden and a prospector. Alfred then carried on the family business.