James W. Wightman,[4] pastors of Presbyterian churches in nearby Hagerstown, Maryland, and Greencastle, Pennsylvania.

[14][15][16] Anna Jane McKeag was inaugurated as Wilson's first woman president in 1911;[17][18] she was succeeded in 1915 by Ethelbert Dudley Warfield.

[20] Although it nearly closed its doors in 1979, a lawsuit organized by students, faculty, parents and an alumnae association succeeded in allowing the college to remain open.

In 1996, the college was one of the first in the nation to offer on-campus residential housing for single mothers living with children.

In 2013, the college's board of trustees voted to extend coeducation across all programs; the first male residential students began studies at Wilson in fall 2014.

[25][26] The Wilson College campus is located at the edge of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on both sides of the Conococheague Creek.

[27] The property was originally bought from newspaper editor and state senator Alexander McClure, whose home had been burnt in 1864 by Confederates under the orders of General Jubal Early.

Softball, Lacrosse, and Soccer teams compete at the fields located in Kris' Meadow, adjacent to the campus' own farm land and facilities.