Wilmington, a large and handsome city and port in Delaware, 25 m. SW. of Philadelphia, with extensive manufactures; also the name of the largest city (20) in North Carolina, with considerable manufactures and trade; was a chief Confederate port during the Civil War.
Population (circa 1900) given as 61,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Wills, William John * Wilson, Alexander