Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . The great-grandfather, whose namewas also Nathaniel, was an early settler andcleared a homestead in that part of Falmouth,known as Pciplar Pidge. He was a son ofMajor Nathaniel Wilson, an officer in theRevolutionary army, and grandson of (iowenWilson, who came to Falmouth and Iniiltthe first mill on the Presumpscot River. Onthe maternal side, the mother of Scott Wil-son was a daughter of Moses Leighton, ofCund)irland, Mc, who was a farmei, teacher. BIOGRA PHIC
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . The great-grandfather, whose namewas also Nathaniel, was an early settler andcleared a homestead in that part of Falmouth,known as Pciplar Pidge. He was a son ofMajor Nathaniel Wilson, an officer in theRevolutionary army, and grandson of (iowenWilson, who came to Falmouth and Iniiltthe first mill on the Presumpscot River. Onthe maternal side, the mother of Scott Wil-son was a daughter of Moses Leighton, ofCund)irland, Mc, who was a farmei, teacher. BIOGRA PHICAL.—MA INE. 41 of tlic legisliiture, and a man of ex-cellent character. Mrs. Wilson descended onher fathers side from Plate Evil Hall, one ofthe early menihers of the family of that namewhich is nnmcrously rejiresented in NewHampshire and Maine. ?Scott Wilson attended the district schoolsuntil he was fifteen years old, wiien he enteredthe Greeley institute, in Cnmherland. Merehe remained one year, which was followed bytwo years of preparation in tlic Nichols I^ at I^cwiston. He entere<l Bates colleoe. SCOTT WILSON. in ISSS and was graduated with honors in1>S!)2. During tlie period passed in ;ills education he ^iit at intervals in districtschools. Immediately after graduating;, Mr. Wilsonbegan tlie study of law in tiie office ofJ. W. Symonds in Portland, Me., and at theclose of the same summer \\ent to the Hav-erford (Pa.) College Granuuar school andtaught two years, spending his vacations inthe same office, with the exception of a part ofthe second year, when he studied in the ofHceof Henrj , in Philadel]iliia. He thentook a special course in the Penusyhania uni- versity I^aw school and was admitted to thel)ar at Portland in April, 1<S95. Since that timehe has been in active practice in Portland. Although still a young man in his profes-sion, he has already attained an enviableposition and has made somewhatpromine
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