Charles G. Wilson

Charles George Wilson (1843–1906) was an American financier and businessman.

In 1890, he was appointed president of the New York City Board of Health, and as president, by September 1892 he was handling a cholera outbreak in New York City. As of December 1894, he was serving as both president of the Board of Health as well as President of the Consolidated Exchange.

At the annual Consolidated Stock Exchange election on June 11, 1900, Mortimer H. Wagar defeated Wilson for the presidency of the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange. According to The New York Times, "the contest was the most closely fought in the history of the Exchange, the total number of votes cast being 793. The largest vote ever polled in a previous election was 628." After Wilson's fifteen years as president, Wagar took over in 1900 with "a large majority of the members" supporting him, having polled 504 votes to 287.

Personal life Charles George Wilson was born in Baltimore on June 9, 1843.

As of 1894, he had apartments in Chelsea at 23rd Street. He was the stepfather of Mrs. A. E. Kofoed, who disappeared from her home in August 1899. Wilson asserted that she might have been kidnapped, as compared to suicide. His wife, Augusta J. Wilson, died on November 21, 1904. The funeral was held at her home on 94th Street in New York.

Wilson died at his summer home near Goshen, New York on May 18, 1906.