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David Wilber
(
October 5
,
1820
–
April 1
,
1890
) was a
United States Representative
from
New York
and father of congressman
David F.
Wilber
(1859 - 1928).
Born near
Quaker Street
,
Schenectady County
, N.Y., moved with his parents to
Milford
,
Otsego County
, N.Y.; attended the common schools; engaged in the lumbering trade, hop business, and agricultural pursuits; member of the board of supervisors of Otsego County in 1858, 1859, 1862, 1865, and 1866; director of the
Albany and Susquehanna Railroad
; director of the Second National Bank of Cooperstown, N.Y.; president of the Wilber National Bank of Oneonta 1874 - 1890; elected as a
Republican
to the
Forty-third Congress
(
March 4
1873
-
March 3
1875
); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; elected to the
Forty-sixth Congress
(
March 4
1879
-
March 3
1881
); was not a candidate for renomination in 1880;
delegate
to the
Republican National Conventions
in 1880 and 1888; moved to
Oneonta
, N.Y., in 1886; again elected as a Republican to the
Fiftieth Congress
; reelected to the
Fifty-first Congress
, but owing to ill health took the oath of office at his home and never attended a session; served from
March 4
1887
, until his death in Oneonta, Otsego County, N.Y. interment in
Glenwood Cemetery
.
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