David Wilber - Oneonta, NY - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures 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."

TITLE: David Wilber ARTIST(S): FABRICATOR: Dauley & Wright DATE: 1890 MEDIUM: Sculpture: possibly concrete; Base: granite and concrete CONTROL NUMBER: IAS NY001746 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Glenwood Cemetery East Main Street Oneonta New York DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: text: "David Wilber born near Quaker Street N.Y. Oct. 5 1820 was elected in 1872, 1878, 1886, 1888 to the 43, 46,50, 51 U.S. Congress died in Oneonta, N.Y. April 1, 1890.

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