Jerome N. Wilson

Jerome Nelson Wilson was a marine engineer who later became a crime reporter for a Chicago newspaper, author of short stories, writer of vaudeville skits and a screenwriter. In the early 1920s he represented The Saliger Ship Salvage Corporation at screenings of a film the company made to attract public investors. At the time of his death he was a sales executive with the Monogram Picture Corporation, trusty of the Motion Picture Association and a secretary-treasurer of the Boys of Harlem, an organization made up of graduates of P. S. 95 (Gravesend Grammar School, Brooklyn). Jerome Nelson Wilson died after a short illness on June 1, 1943 at his home in New York City. He was survived by his wife Rose and son Ivan A. Wilson, who was serving in the military at the time. Wilson's obituary appeared in the June 2nd, 1943 edition of the New York Times. His father's name surfaced in June of 2010 over a controversy about some photographs of his that appeared in an Internet auction. US Passport Application, October 22, 1912, The Daily Courier (Connellsville PA) May 5, 1917, Jerome Nelson Wilson by Keith Craig, The Bridgeport Telegram, December 10, 1920, New York Times, June 2, 1943