In 1916, bankers succeeded in luring Wilson away from Morris & Company, in order to run a failing New York-based meat packer Sulzberger & Sons.

[3] Wilson was an important influence on the branding of processed meat foods, having developed many of today's popular value added beef and pork products.

In a real estate transaction in the 1920s, Wilson & Co. bought the Ashland Manufacturing Company, including its inventory of sporting goods products.

In 1946 Wilson received the United States Government's Medal for Merit from President Harry Truman for his services to the U.S. economy during World War II.

An archive of Wilson's personal papers exists at the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago Library.