Benjamin Davis Wilson
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Benjamin Davis Wilson, commonly known as Don Benito Wilson, was an American-Mexican politician, fur trapper, and ranchero of California. Born in Tennessee to parents from Virginia, Wilson eventually s
Benjamin Davis Wilson, c. 1875
Cattle brand of Benjamin Davis Wilson
George S. Patton
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George Smith Patton Jr. was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, then the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied
Benjamin Davis Wilson
…widow Margaret Hereford. They had four children, of whom one daughter Ruth married George Smith Patton and had a son who became the World War II General George S. Patton Jr. The Pattons later purchased Lake Vineyard. Wilson died at the ranch in 1878 and was buried in San Gabriel Cemetery. The last of his land holdings…
Official portrait, 1945
Anne Wilson "Nita" Patton, Patton's sister. She was engaged to John J. Pershing in 1917–1918.
Patton at the Virginia Military Institute
Patton (right) fencing in the modern pentathlon of the 1912 Summer Olympics