M. W. Wilson Explained

Melvin W. Wilson served in the California State Legislature in the Placer County delegation of the State Assembly.^{[1] [2]} He was a republican and on the Committee of Mines and Mining, Retrenchment and State Hospitals in 1878–9.^[2] He was a physician and surgeon. He lived in Dutch Flat, California.

He was originally from Massachusetts, lived in Saratoga, New York and moved to California in 1852.^[2] He moved back to New York in 1858. He an assistant surgeon of 118th New York Infantry Regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War for four years.^{[2] [3]} He was in charge of the Relay Hospitals in Maryland.^[2]

References

1. Book: Vassar. Alexander C.. Legislators of California. 2011. 23 November 2016.
2. Compiled by R. R. Parkinson in Sacramento City, during the Session of the Legislator of 1877-8. "Hon M. W. Wilson", Pen Portraits: Autobiographies of State Officers, Legislators, Prominent Business and Professional Men of the Capital of the State of California; Also, of Newspaper Proprietors, Editors, and Members of the Corps Reportorial, San Francisco, 1878, page 83.
3. Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York: Eighty-Eighth–Session.–1865., volume 7, numbers 113 to 161 inclusive, (Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the State of New York, transmitted to the Legislature, February 28, 1865), Albany, New York, C. Wendell, Legislative Printer, 1865, Schedule D (List of Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons appointed in New York State Volunteer Regiments from April 15, 1861 to December 31, 1864), page 38.