. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. ersant with more languages than almostanv other man, and is perhaps the best hnguist living. He is a Greekand Latin scholar, and in addition to a knowledge of the Russian, Po-lish, Bohemian, Moravian, Slovack, Croatian, Dalmatian, and the lan-o-uao-e of the Montenegrini, speaks with fluency the following tongues:his vernacular, the Slavono-Servian, the Hungarian or Magyar, theGerman, the English, the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian. With all these accomphshments—with all
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. ersant with more languages than almostanv other man, and is perhaps the best hnguist living. He is a Greekand Latin scholar, and in addition to a knowledge of the Russian, Po-lish, Bohemian, Moravian, Slovack, Croatian, Dalmatian, and the lan-o-uao-e of the Montenegrini, speaks with fluency the following tongues:his vernacular, the Slavono-Servian, the Hungarian or Magyar, theGerman, the English, the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian. With all these accomphshments—with all these honors—having inless than fifty years undergone more than fifty ordinary men of greaterao-e, he remains a plain, unassuming, active gentleman, unpretentious offame, and only anxious to have his name descend untarnished to hischildren ; and as a proof of this he is now quietly performing the ardu-ous duties of Secretary to the Board of Land Commissioners to ascertainand settle the private land claims in California, and ex interpreter-of said board, its translator, and keeper of its ?&i---ei oy J c a,^^ ^^ g_ Dagisneoi^* cz£ /^/n^o^ tfhr3ui0N2phualySlabihes of EminentAmine: OEL W, WILSON, OF OHIO. 447 JOEL W. WILSON, Esq., OF OHIO, Was born in Bridport, Vermont, on the 1st day of December, in the 1815. While yet an infant his parents emigrated to the state ofOhio, and settled in Licking county. Mr. Wilsons earl} days were sjjentin agricultural pursuits, by which he acquired a robust constitution, andhabits of industry which have characterized him in after life, in all hispursuits. At this early period in the history of Ohio, when all, compara-tively, was a dense wilderness, the opportunities for an education werevery limited, and Mr. Wilson being not of tho favored, and not having theiveallh of a father to support him at school, in some of the noted institu-tions of our country, was compelled to be his own instructor, by thelimited aid of a
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