Editing Wilson, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[Image:Page 99 of Wilson Township Organizational Meeting 1914.jpg|thumb|left|Page 99 of a Wilson Township organizational meeting in 1914]]
Wilson Borough is named after former U.S. President [[Woodrow Wilson]]. First formed as a township on February 10, 1913 during the first half of 1920, a number of property owners solicited the courts to change the form of government from a township to that of a borough.

According to the 1920 book, ''History of the Northampton County (Pennsylvania) and the Grand Valley of Lehigh'', by the [[American Historical Association]], supervised and revised by William J. Heller, the township was consummated by the courts in 1914, but the court case of ''Palmer School District v. Wilson School District'' indicates the township's formation occurred on February 10, 1913.<ref name="books.google.com"/><ref name="google">{{cite book|title=History of Northampton County &#91;Pennsylvania&#93; and the Grand Valley of the Lehigh: Under Supervision and Revision of William J. Heller, Assisted by an Advisory Board of Editors...|author1=Heller, W.J.|author2=American Historical Society|date=1920|publisher=American historical society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=StEwAQAAMAAJ|page=506|access-date=2014-11-15}}</ref>

There are two very early court cases soon after the creation of the new township in 1913. The first, ''Palmer School District v. Wilson School District'', related to Wilson owing Palmer for a certain amount of indebtedness caused by the township's creation. The second, ''Township of Wilson v. Easton Transit Co.'' in 1916, related to Wilson officials suing the transit company for performing work without first obtaining necessary permissions. The township lost this case, but in an appeal to [[Supreme Court of Pennsylvania]] on May 22, 1917, then Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Walling ruled, "The assignments of error are overruled and the decree is affirmed at the cost of the appellant."<ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=Pennsylvania State Reports Containing Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania|author=Pennsylvania. Supreme Court|date=1918|volume=258|publisher=West Publishing Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TwH0AAAAMAAJ|page=271|access-date=2014-11-15}}</ref>