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Amos Parker Wilder (1862 - 1936)

Amos Parker Wilder
Born in Calais, Washington, Maine, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married 3 Dec 1894 [location unknown]
Died at age 74 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesmap
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Biography

Amos was born in 1863. He was the son of Amos Wilder and Charlotte Topliff Porter.

Amos Parker Wilder grew up in the state capital of Augusta, and graduated from Yale College, where he was a scholar, singer, orator and editor of one of Yale's literary magazines, the Courant.

After graduating in 1884, he taught for two years and then became a journalist, working first as a reporter in Philadelphia. He returned to New Haven to edit the New Haven Palladium, while also working on a doctorate at Yale. He wrote his dissertation on the difficulties and possible solutions of governing American cities, and received his Ph.D. in 1892. When he lost his editorship at the Palladium for attacking political figures who had a financial interest in that newspaper, he left New Haven for a position as an editorial writer on a New York City paper.

In 1894, he traveled to the Midwest, intent on finding a newspaper to invest in and work on. He was able to buy a one-quarter interest in the Wisconsin State Journal.

On December 3, 1894, he married Isabella Thornton Niven of Dobbs Ferry, New York.

As parents they were supportive, but sometimes overbearing. They dictated what their son Thornton Wilder did with his time, and made him work on farms in the summer so that he would be more well-rounded. They decided where he would go to college: to Oberlin, in Ohio, and then to Yale.

Amos Parker Wilder, was a newspaper owner and editor, a powerful speaker, and the United States Consul General to Hong Kong and Shanghai. He was a newspaper editor in Madison, Wisconsin.

He passed away in 1936.

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See also:

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Parker_Wilder
  • "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKNT-NRMF : 16 March 2018), Amos P Wilder, 1912; citing Passport Application, China, source certificate #66859, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 153, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  • "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV3-SRK6 : 13 September 2020), Amos Parker Wilder, ; Burial, Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Mount Carmel Burying Ground; citing record ID 7086589, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
  • "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF3P-9Z9 : 15 August 2017), A Parker Wilder in household of Amos Wilder, Augusta, Kennebec, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district ED 83, sheet 17A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,481.
  • "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DV-JDZ : 2 January 2021), Amos P Wilder in entry for Amos Wilder, 1870.
  • "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMKH-KMG : accessed 3 January 2021), Amos Wilder, Madison city Ward 1, Dane, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 46, sheet 9A, family 131, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,782.
  • "Wisconsin State Census, 1905," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMSL-RLB : 4 April 2020), Amos Wilder, Madison city, ward 01, Dane, Wisconsin; citing p. 457, line 29, State Historical Society, Madison; FHL microfilm 1,020,444.
  • "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM5W-2X5 : accessed 3 January 2021), Amos Wilder, Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 140, sheet 14B, line 85, family 357, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 273; FHL microfilm 2,340,008.
  • "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCNC-GWB : 26 December 2020), Amos Wilder, 1920.




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