New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . Company. 54 J^EW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. GEORGE WILSON. The business people of New York who have not at onetime or another been brought into personal relations withMr. George Wilson, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce,are comparatively speaking very few, while those who haveand went away with any but the most favorable im])ressionsare still fewer. Mr. Wilson was born in New York City on theseventh of January, 1839, of New England parentage. Hisfather, Jothani \\ ilson, was a native of New London, grandfather fought
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . Company. 54 J^EW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. GEORGE WILSON. The business people of New York who have not at onetime or another been brought into personal relations withMr. George Wilson, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce,are comparatively speaking very few, while those who haveand went away with any but the most favorable im])ressionsare still fewer. Mr. Wilson was born in New York City on theseventh of January, 1839, of New England parentage. Hisfather, Jothani \\ ilson, was a native of New London, grandfather fought in the war of 1812-14, and one ofhis great-grandfathers, a soldier of the Revolution, waskilled at the disastrous battle of Monmouth while fightingfor American independence. He received the ordinarypublic school education, but being naturally bright, andmaking the most of his opportunities, he was, at the age ofnineteen, able to take the position of Assistant Secretaryto the Chajiiber of Commerce. This was thirty-fiveyears ago, when the Chamber of Commerce had not. GEORGE WILSON. attained to anything like its present magnificent ]iro))ortionsor its standing as one of the leading commercial corporationsin the world. Neither had its affairs ])cen crystallized intotheir present routine smoothness and perfect discipline, and,as a matter of fact, Assistant Secretary is rather a vagueway of defining Mr. Wilsons position, which was really thatof a man of all work. But as the Chamber grew he grewwith it, and manifesting the powcs of concentration andorganization that he did, the (piestionof his being Secretarywas only a (piestion of time. In 1868 he was elected to thatoffice. Mr. Wilson is remarkable fc^r the manner in whii hhe directs all his energies upon one thing, and also for his])rofound knowledge of the commercial statistics not onlyof New \ork City but of the United States. He married, in1863, Miss Mary 15. .Vnierman, niec e of the great is a very accessible man, and
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