Samuel Jennings Wilson (July 19, 1828 – August 17, 1883) was a clergyman and academic in Western Pennsylvania.

[1] Wilson was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, on July 19, 1828, and attended Washington College and was a student and teacher at the Western Theological Seminary (now Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, for over 25 years, serving as chair of sacred and ecclesiastical history.

[1] He served as a delegate to various national and world-wide conferences of the Presbyterian Church.

for Washington & Jefferson College from April 20, 1869, to August 4, 1869.

[2] After his death from typhoid in 1883, he was called "one of the abelest and most learned ministers in the Presbyterian Church.