New Hampshire Union Leader

1861 — The Civil War breaks out and Henry Wilson is ready for action

At the start of the Civil War in April 1861, 49-year-old Henry Wilson of Natick, Mass., was serving his sixth year in the U.S. Senate. He had been reelected in 1859 after having first been elected in ...
New Hampshire Union Leader

Looking Back: Henry Wilson becomes a political leader in the anti-slavery movement

Farmington, N.H., native Henry Wilson was elected to public office for the first time in 1840 when he won his bid to represent his adopted hometown of Natick, Mass. in the state’s House of ...
Berkshire Eagle

What was it like living in the 'smallest house' on Pittsfield Lenox Road in 1903?

Long before the tiny house movement, in 1903 Henry Wilson built the “smallest house in New England” on the Pittsfield Lenox Road. At least, that’s what the Boston papers called it; I do not know if it ...
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Henry Wilson

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the ...