Emily Lloyd Wilson
(1868-1960)

Died aged c. 92

Emily Lloyd Wilson was born c. 1868 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. After studying at the Philadelphia School of Design, her interest in art encouraged her to visit St. Augustine in 1901 when Henry Flagler’s artist colony was in residence at the Ponce de Leon studios. She purchased a residence at 280 St. George Street and lived there each winter until she was 90 years old. From 1919 to 1953 she researched the history of the city. She traveled repeatedly to Tallahassee and Washington, D.C. in search of information, and during her summers in New Jersey she solicited documents and maps for review. Wilson secured copies of old maps, documents and Spanish records which became the basis for the St. Augustine Historical Society’s library. She served as librarian and historian. When city officials began to resurrect the colonial city in the 1930s, her research provided valuable information. Emily Lloyd Wilson died in 1960.

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