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D. L. (Daniel Love) Wilson
1849–1902
A Tennessee minister and writer, he is chiefly remembered as the co-author of a 1905 book on the first Ku Klux Klan. His surviving public record is slim, which makes him more of a shadowy historical figure than a widely documented literary personality.
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Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment
by John C. Lester, D. L. (Daniel Love) Wilson
About the author
Daniel Love Wilson (1849–1902), often listed as D. L. Wilson, was an American minister from Pulaski, Tennessee. Library and book records identify him as the co-author, with John C. Lester, of Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment, published in 1905 after Wilson's death.
Because reliable biographical sources on him are scarce, only a few details can be stated confidently from the records found. He is consistently cataloged under the fuller name Daniel Love Wilson, with the life dates 1849–1902, and at least one contemporary book notice refers to him as Rev. D. L. Wilson of Pulaski, Tenn.
That limited paper trail leaves a mixed legacy. He remains notable less for a broad body of published work than for his connection to an early, much-cited account of the Ku Klux Klan's beginnings — a book that today is mainly of interest as a historical source rather than as a reflection of values modern readers would endorse.