David Wilber - Glenwood Cemetery, Oneonta, NY - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

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"...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."

Description: He was a businessman who was elected multiple times to the US Congress from New York's 20th and 21st district. Date of birth: 10/05/1820 Date of death: 04/01/1890 Area of notoriety: Politics Marker Type: Statue Setting: Outdoor Fee required?: No Web site: [Web Link] Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Not listed

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