Lucian Clovis Wilson. His father was Asa James Wilson, son of prominent Pike Co family with large land holdings. Asa James Wilson went to Crosby Co TX and established himself on land at Emma. He was killed in an accident before he had a chance to send for his wife and family of two boys and a girl in AL.
Lucian's mother took the family to live with her parents in the family home on Ballard's Hill. He went to school at Spring Hill and attend the Alabama State College in Troy. His mother moved the family into Troy to take advantage of the educational opportunities for the children. He graduated from Springfield College in Springfield, MASS, in 1911 with a BS degree. During the summer vacation at Springfield he went abroad to work in a camp for Scotch Territorials under the Scottish YMCA at Stobbs,Scotland, and to attend the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh.
In 1920 he spent a year at Oberline College, Oberlin, Ohio, securing a Master's Degree from the School of Theology. In 1934, he received a BD degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York and a MA degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, NY.
His life work was the YMCA, serving first in Dallas and Beaumont, TX. upon graduation from Springfield College. He was sent to China under the work of the International Committee of the YMCA and served in Shanghai as secretary to Mr. Fletcher Brockman. The International Committee of the YMCA sent him to the Language School in Peking for a year's study in the Chinese language and he was then assigned to Tokyo, Japan, to serve as Executive of the YMCA for Chinese students in Tokyo. He returned to the United States to travel for a year recruiting personnel for the overseas work of the YMCA. He undertook an assignment for the European war rehabilitation work of the YMCA for two years, living in Geneva, Switzerland, and traveling in Europe, the Balkans, and the Near East. He returned to the US and became associated with the student work of the YMCA serving as General Secretary at the University of Maine, Orono, as Executive of the Middle Atlantic States for the National Student Division, as General Secretary at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
In 1950 he became Director of the United Student Christian Fellowship at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and retired from the YMCA in 1955 to serve the Church World Service in St. Louis, MO. He was also associated with the general movement of the YMCA in this country at the East Liberty YMCA in Pittsburgh PA. He became ill in June, 1961, while attending a reunion of his class at Springfield College in Springfield, MASS. He, son of
Asa J. Wilson and
Lula Catherine Ballard, was born on 13 December 1887 in Spring Hill, Pike Co, AL
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Lucian was listed as a grandson of
Thomas Weldon Ballard in the in 1900 census for in Troy, Pike Co, AL
G. Thomas W Ballard 56 May 1844 m35 GA GA GA tax collector, Jane C 66 Dec 1833 m35 10/10 AL NC NC, Herbert W 27 AL merchant, W Eugene 23 AL lithographer, Lula C Wilson 30 dau widow 3/3, James T Wilson 16 AL gs, Mary Jane 14 AL gd, Lucien C Wilson 12 AL gs.
1 Lucian was listed as a grandson of
Thomas Weldon Ballard in the in 1910 census for in Spring Hill, Pike Co, AL
G. Thomas W Ballard 66 m45 GA GA GA farmer, Jane C 76 AL NC NC, Herbert 37 AL farmer, Lula C Wilson 43 widow 3/3 AL, Lucian C 22 gs AL stenographer.
2 Lucian Clovis Wilson died on 21 July 1961. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, Pike Co, AL
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