Dick Wilson and Hugh Wilson

[T_MacWood]

Both are from Philly. Are they related?

[wsmorrison]

We've never heard that they were related and we asked the same question.  Both were born in Philadelphia--Hugh in 1879 and Dick (real name Louis Sibbett Wilson) in 1904.  Like many in the upper class of Philadelphia, Hugh attended Princeton University while Dick attended the University of Vermont.  Do you have any information that might lead you to believe they were related?  If so, it must have been distantly so.

[T_MacWood]

Wayne
I don't have any information...I was curious. Based on what I know of Dick Wilson he may found himself at Vermont by way of an expulsion from Dartmouth.

[wsmorrison]

What happened at Dartmouth?  Do you recall the source of the information?  We have been unable to track down any relatives of Dick Wilson.

Wilson's brother (his name escapes me) worked for Flynn as well and was apparently much more reliable and less drunk.

[T_MacWood]

Wayne
No information on Dick attending Dartmouth or any other Ivy League school...but based on his reputation he could have easily been expelled from the best of them.

[TEPaul]

I'm almost 100% sure Hugh Wilson and Dick Wilson were no relation at all. It's a very common name, even in Philadelphia.  

There is a semi-failed  black rapper (former inner-city drug dealer) however, by the name of LeHugh "Puffy" Wilson who I'm almost 100% certain is Hugh Wilson's illegitimate grandson. He sort of came out of the woodwork and went semi-public during the Merion East bunker project apparently because he thought the bunkers looked puffy and upholstered and really "BAD" like a couple of the barcaloungers in one of the Brothers safe houses in North Philly.

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