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A. M. WILSON.

A.M. WILSON, principal at Leavenworth, Kansas, has a varied career, which Lincoln Institute crosses at every turn.

He first entered Lincoln Institute in 1879, after several years of hard work in the public schools of Sedalia, under the renowned Quaker, D. W. Bowles.

During the second and third years of his attendance at Lincoln he taught through four months of each year in a district school of Howard county. He was graduated at Lincoln, June 9, 1882, secured a position as an assistant in the Sedalia public school, which he held for two years. He then taught in Clinton, Henry county, Missouri, one year; when he obtained a position in Fort Scott, Kansas. He taught there as an assistant, and afterward principal, for sixteen years.

When the Spanish-American War broke out he enlisted as captain of Company D, 23d Kansas Volunteer Infantry.  He saw duty in San Luis, Santiago, Province De Cuba.  Theirs was one of the few regiments officered entirely by negroes to do any duty in foreign territory.  He was mustered out as captain of the company, having served as field officer during his last three months in the army.

In the autumn of 1899 he went back to his old position as principal of schools at Fort Scott, which had been left open for him while he dared to defend his country's honor. But tiring of a salary that never rises from inadequacy, he sought other fields.  During the year of 1899 he was commissioned one of the first members of the State Board of Trustees for Western University at Quindaro, Kansas, assisted in putting that

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