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James Wilson, grandfather of President Woodrow Wilson, was born February 1787 at Dergalt, and emigrated to America in 1807,where he married Sion Mills girl Annie Adams.
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Wilson became editor of a Philadelphia newspaper, The Aurora and subsequently a member of the Ohio State legislature before finally becoming a senator. The ancestral home near Strabane town still remains and is managed with assistance from Strabane District Council.
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