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Surnames: Wilson
Classification: Biography
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20th Century Souvenir Edition of the Ossian News. January 1st, 1900, page 77.
The lady readers of this volume will not require to be taught where in Ossian is to be
found the choicest selection of fancy millinery. The name of Mrs. E. Wilson has so long
been associated with what is artistic in ladies furnishings that all are perfectly
familiar with the high standard and exquisite taste of her establishment. In this work,
Mrs. Wilson's judgment is supplemented by the taste of Miss Grace, her daughter, who
has charge of the trimming department, and who is one of the most popular and brilliant
young ladies in the city.
Mrs. Wilson has lived in this place 30 years, and her life history is so familiar to all
that any data relating thereto or comment thereupon, would be superfluous. For several
years, she was absent keeping house for Miss Grace who was pursuing a collegiate and
musical education. In the fall of 1893, she returned to Ossian and established her
present business, coming direct from Hartford City, where she had been at the head of a
millinery shop for a year.
A glance at the stock kept by Mrs. Wilson, will amply repay anyone who is a lover of art.
Always selecting that which is most elegant and tasty, good dressers have found it to
their advantage to deal where their orders, large or small, receive careful attention.
Miss Grace Wilson who is a most able head of the trimming department, is a charming
leaders in social circles. She is a member of the Eastern Star order, and holds the
office therein of Esther. She is also a Sister of Rebecca, and is deservedly popular with
all the young people in the city. Her tastes and culture are such as to make her the
center of large and admiring coterie of friends.
It is the pleasure of the NEWS to pay a sincere compliment to the many talents by which
she dignifies and adorns the social world about us. She deserves special praise for her
arts of impersonation and reciting in which she shows great histrionic power.