Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 23, 1994                   TAG: 9403230058
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

RETIRED HEAD OF CHICAGO COMPANY DIES

He died Saturday at Sibley Memorial Hospital. Wilson, who lived in White Post, Va., became one of the country's youngest corporate presidents in 1934 when he took the helm of the Chicago meatpacking company founded by his father.

The company was taking in $180 million a year in revenue at the time, and by 1953, when Wilson became chairman, he had built it into an $800-million-a-year entity with diversified product lines, including sporting goods and pharmaceuticals.

Wilson, a native of Chicago, graduated from Princeton in 1926. In addition to working in the family business, he was active in various Chicago charities.

Wilson left the company as chairman in 1956. He was named an assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare a year later.

Wilson & Co. eventually was broken up and sold.