M. W. Wilson
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Melvin W. Wilson served in the California State Legislature in the Placer County delegation of the State Assembly.[1][2] He was a republican and on the Committee of Mines and Mining, Retrenchment and State Hospitals in 1878–9.[2] He was a physician and surgeon. He lived in Dutch Flat, California.
He was originally from Massachusetts, lived in Saratoga, New York and moved to California in 1852.[2] He moved back to New York in 1858. He an assistant surgeon of 118th New York Infantry Regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War for four years.[2][3] He was in charge of the Relay Hospitals in Maryland.[2]