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==Background==

==Background==

Wilson was born in Newark, [[Ohio]] as one of three children.<ref name=nytimesobit>April 24, 1895. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/04/24/102455902.pdf DEATH OF THE SLAVE'S FRIEND; The Public Record of ex-Senator James F. Wilson, Who Died in Fairfield, Iowa, Monday Night.] ''The New York Times''. Retrieved November 27, 2021.</ref> When he was around eleven years old, his father died and left the family unprovided. Wilson subsequently helped support the family, and soon became a harnessmaker's apprentice when thirteen years old.<ref name=nytimesobit/>

Wilson was born in Newark, [[Ohio]] as one of three children.<ref name=nytimesobit>April 24, 1895. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/04/24/102455902.pdf DEATH OF THE SLAVE'S FRIEND; The Public Record of ex-Senator James F. Wilson, Who Died in Fairfield, Iowa, Monday Night.] ''The New York Times''. Retrieved November 27, 2021.</ref> When he was ten years old, his father died and left the family unprovided.<ref name=1882bio>Howe, Samuel Storrs (1882). [https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/AIO/attachments/781581_955815.pdf James Wilson]. ''State Historical Society of Iowa''. Retrieved November 27, 2021.</ref> Wilson subsequently helped support the family, and soon became a harnessmaker's apprentice when thirteen years old.<ref name=nytimesobit/>

Attending local common schools, Wilson would study following his working hours.<ref name=nytimesobit/> While involved in harnessmaking, a trade he was active in until 1851, Wilson also studied law and loaned books from future [[United States Supreme Court]] justice William B. Woods, who helped instruct him. Admitted to the bar in 1852, he married Mary A. K. Jewett the following year and moved to Fairfield, Iowa,<ref name=nytimesobit/> where a law office was opened.<ref name=iowalegislaturebio>[https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator/legislatorAllYears?personID=5620 James Falconer Wilson]. ''The Iowa Legislature''. Retrieved November 27, 2021.</ref>

Attending local common schools, Wilson would study following his working hours.<ref name=nytimesobit/> While involved in harnessmaking, a trade he was active in until 1851, Wilson also studied law and loaned books from future [[United States Supreme Court]] justice William B. Woods, who helped instruct him. Admitted to the bar in 1852, he married Mary A. K. Jewett the following year and moved to Fairfield, Iowa,<ref name=nytimesobit/> where a law office was opened.<ref name=iowalegislaturebio>[https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator/legislatorAllYears?personID=5620 James Falconer Wilson]. ''The Iowa Legislature''. Retrieved November 27, 2021.</ref>