Wilson, Charles Edmund

ID
3021
Nationality
Canadian
Occupation
Inventor. wood engraver
Summary
About 1904, invented and built a complicated crank-driven mechanical toy in which a farm woman milked a cow and two other animals all made lifelike motions. Worked as a newspaper illustrator, then as a wood engraver for a Montreal firm until retirement. Married Eva Elizabeth Swift in 1890.
Dates
15 March 1848-6 June 1913