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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Victor A. Wilder |
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Warwick, New York , United States |
| Email | None |
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July 08, 1845
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| Died | March 24, 1927
(81 years)
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | Mr. Matt
Jul 08, 2022 10:46am |
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| Info | Victor Audubon Wilder
Railroad builder and advocate of the principles of Henry George who was a contender for the presidential nomination of the United Labor Party in 1888.
Wilder was born on 7/8/1845 in Cuther ME, a son of Mariner A. Wilder and Mary (Philbrick) Wilder Stevens. He attended public schools in Boston MA and then served in the Union Army under Burnside in North Carolina. Wilder worked in a lumber yard in Brooklyn NY 1865-1875 and then as a mining prospector in Colorado 1875-1882. He then returned to the East, settling in Warwick NY, where he took a position as treasurer of the New York Railway Supply Company.
Wilder was associated with the United Labor Party in the late 1880s. This party advocated the tax and land ownership ideas of Henry George. Wilder was the party's nominee for Comptroller of New York State in the 1887 election. The following year, Wilder was a contender for the nomination for US President but was defeated at the party's sole national convention.
Wilder's career after his presidential candidacy was varied. In 1891 he purchased an iron works in Wawayanda NJ possibly to supply his railroad company; one of his most memorable activities was his closing of a YWCA that was using part of the property. In 1898 he sought the Republican nomination for US House but was not nominated. Then in 1899 he was forced into bankruptcy, losing all his railroad assets and investments (New York Times, 10/12/1899). In 1903, Wilder was indicted for conspiracy and bribery as part of the King Syndicate in Huntington WV. He was again a candidate for US House in 1906, winning the nomination of the Democratic Party and the Independence League.
His birth year may have been 1844. He was living as late as 1910, as newspapers reported that his mother died in his house in Warwick (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 6/20/1910). Per an entry on Find A Grave, he died on March 24, 1927 and is buried in Warwick Cemetery in Warwick, NY.
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