Rufus Rockwell Wilson was a prominent writer and Associate Editor for the Elmira Telegram in Elmira, NY.
After leaving the Telegram in December 1890, he worked on several metropolitan New York newspapers and began to write books. He returned to Elmira in 1937 and ran the Primavera Press with his wife, Anna Otilie Erickson Wilson. He was a recognized Lincoln scholar and in 1943, he received an honorary doctorate from Lincoln Memorial University.
Wilson died in 1949 at the age of 84 and is buried in Troy, PA.