Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

Thousands of short American lives — soldiers, inventors, preachers, governors, novelists — each given a paragraph: born where, did what, and why anyone remembered.

HomeW › Wilber, David F

Wilber, David F

agriculturist, congressman, was born Dec. 7, 1859, in Milford, N. Y. Since 1890 he has been largely interested in farming and stock breeding in Oneonta, N. Y. He is a director of the Wilber National bank of Oneonta; and is president of the Holstein- Friesian association of America and of the American Cheviot Sheep association of the United States and Canada. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. He was instrumental in securing the passage of the filled cheese bill in 1896.

← Wiggin, Kate Douglas – Wike, ScottWilbur, Robert Palmer →