Preceded by Patrick J. Sparrow | Spouse(s) Elizabeth Hanna Wilson Name S. Wilson | |
Born March 17, 1783
Crowders, North Carolina ( 1783-03-17 ) Died August 1, 1869(1869-08-01) (aged 86)
Hampden Sydney, Virginia Children Mary Blain Wilson
Samuel Owen Wilson
Martha Hanna Wilson
John Mark Wilson
Eliza Chur Gordon
James Matthew Wilson Alma mater D.D. Princeton University | ||
Succeeded by F. S. Sampson (Acting) | ||
Samuel B. Wilson (born Samuel Wilson) (March 17, 1783 – August 1, 1869) was a Virginia theologian and professor. He served a brief period as acting President of Hampden–Sydney College in 1847.
Biography
Wilson was the born in Crowders, North Carolina in 1783, the tenth child to John and Mary Wray Wilson. He was christened as Samuel Wilson, but as a young man he added a middle name and subsequently signed himself as Samuel B. Wilson. Dr. Wilson later told his grandson, William Caruthers (son of William Alexander Caruthers and great-nephew of Archibald Alexander, the B. stood for Brown, in memory of Rev. Samuel Brown, in whose family Dr. Wilson lived for some time while studying theology under him.
Wilson was a professor at the Union Theological Seminary now (Union Presbyterian Seminary) in Hampden Sydney, Virginia from November 1841 to August 1869. In 1847, Wilson accepted the role as Acting President of Hampden–Sydney College, a position he held for three months before being replaced by F. S. Sampson.