David F. Wilber

David Forrest Wilber ( born December 7, 1859 in Milford, New York, † August 14 1928 in Upper Dam, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman David Wilber was his father.

Career

David Forrest Wilber was born about two years before the outbreak of the civil war in Otsego County. He attended public schools. In 1879 he graduated from Cazenovia Seminary. After that, he was active in Milford in 1879 and 1880 in Oneonta in the hop business. He also went to real estate transactions, agricultural work and animal husbandry. He represented twice in Oneonta District of Otsego County. Between 1883 and 1896 he was vice president and director of Wilber National Bank of Oneonta. He was a trustee of Cazenovia Seminary. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1894 for the 54th Congress Wilber was the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Simon J. Schermerhorn on March 4, 1895. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1898, he retired after March 3 in 1899 from the Congress.

In 1903, he was U.S. Consul in Barbados - a post he held until 1905. After that, he was 1905-1907 in Singapore, in 1907-1909 in Halifax, 1909-1910 in Kobe, 1910-1913 in Vancouver, 1913-1915 in Zurich, 1915-1921 in Genoa and 1922-1923 Auckland and Wellington served as Consul General. In June 1923 he returned to Oneonta, where he pursued his business again. Between 1924 and 1927 he was a member of the Republican State Committee. He died on 14 August 1928 in his summer camp in Upper Dam in Oxford County and was then buried in the Glenwood Cemetery, Oneonta.