Wilson was born in Halifax, England, probably in 1817,[REF] but spent the majority of his life in the USA (to which he moved, initially to Geneva, Illinois, with his family, in 1844), where he died on May 8, 1900, in Sacramento, California.
Benjamin Wilson was rebaptised in 1851, marking off a new start from the Campbellites, just as John Thomas had been in 1847 [REF].