Wilson, J. Leighton (John Leighton), 1809-1886 (Personal Name)

His The British squadron on the coast of Africa, 1850: t.p. (Rev. J. Leighton Wilson, of the American mission established in the Gaboon River)

LC data base, 12/4/89 (hdg.: Wilson, John Leighton, 1809-1886; usage: J. Leighton Wilson)

Presbyterian Heritage Center website, viewed May 25, 2013: Biographical index of missionaries--Africa (WILSON, John Leighton; b. Mar. 25, 1809 in Sumter Co., SC; d. July 13, 1886; Union College, 1829-1829; Columbia Seminary, 1831-1833; appointed by Southern Board of Missions in 1833, served at Cape Palmas, Liberia with new colony of freed slaves; married Jane Elizabeth Bayard in 1834, returned to Liberia with her, served there for next seven years; transferred to Gabon, served there 1842-1852; elected one of Secretaries of Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, New York City, 1853; exec. sec. of Committee on Foreign Missions of Presbyterian Church of the Confederate States of America (later Presbyterian Church, U.S.); served in Baltimore, MD, 1876 until retirement in 1884)

This day in Presbyterian history website, Mar. 20, 2020: July 13: Rev. John Leighton Wilson page (Author of a a grammar and dictionary of the Grebo language)