admin JOHN WILKESON, eldest son of Judge Samuel Wilkeson, was born October 28, 1806. When a young man he went to Central America, and on returning to the United States in 1840, he became secretary to his father. Two years afterward, President Tyler appointed him United States Consul to Turk’s Island, in the West Indies. After he resigned from his consulship, Mr. Wilkeson spent many years in iron manufacture. In 1858 he built one of the first elevators on the Buffalo lake front. He was a strong Republican and a personal friend of Millard Fillmore, with whom he made a trip to Europe in 1866.
In 1832, Mr. Wilkeson married Maria Louise Wilkes, of Portsmouth, England, a daughter of William David Wilkes and Elizabeth Pry. Mr. Wilkeson was the father of three children, John Wilkes, Col. Samuel H. and Maria Louise Wilkeson. The death of John Wilkeson occurred on the 4th of April, 1894.
SOURCE: Memorial and Family History of Erie County New York; Volume I