Wilder, Alexander
journalist, physician, scientist, author, was born May 14, 1823, in Verona, N. Y. In 1850 he graduated in medicine. He became assistant editor of the Syracuse Star, then editor of the New York Teacher; and later editor of the American College Journal. About 1860 he became member of the editorial staff of the Evening Post, and a for thirteen years was its legislative correspondent. He has been prominent in public affairs, and in various medical associations, and is a noted scientist with decided philosophic proclivities; and in 1893 he delivered the address at the World's Medical Congress auxiliary. He is the author of the following works: The Later Platonists; The Soul; Life Eternal; The Birth and Being of Things; The Antecedent Life; Intuition and Divination; Micro-Organisms in Disease; Mind, Thought, and Cerebration; The Ganglionic Nervous System; Psychological Science; and The Resurrection.