History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

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History of Swansea
and was returned to that body in 1879. In 1854 he was in the State
Senate and was a member of the Committee on Engrossed Bills, and chairman
of the committee on Capital Punishment. Mr Wilbur's services were
also sought by the financial and manufacturing institutions of Fall River,
which from the eminence on which he dwelt he had seen developed from a
small hamlet of less than 2,000 inhabitants to a city of about 100,000 souls.
He was president of the National Union Bank, and a director of the
Wampanaug Mills, and of the Slade Mills. In the death of Daniel Wilbur
the community lost a good citizen, a man upright, honest, and true, one
respected and trusted by all who knew him, a man who did his own thinking
from premises which he had himself investigated, and whose conclusions
were his honest convictions and the basis of his actions in all matters.
He was president of the board of trustees of the South Somerset M.E. Church.
Feb. 3, 1845, Mr. Wilbur married Nancy O. Slade, daughter of John
and Rachael (Horton) Slade. She was born in September, 1822, and died
March 22, 1860. Their children were: Daniel, born Nov. 13, 1845, who
is mentioned below; Angelina, born Nov. 13, 1847, died Nov. 30, 1848;
William Barnaby, born June 30, 1850, died unmarried Sept. 3, 1893; and
Roswell Everett, born Jan. 21, 1854, died Sept. 20, 1876. Oct. 31, 1861,
Mr. Wilbur married (second) Sarah E. Mason, daughter of John Mason
of Swansea. She was born in 1833, and died Aug. 2, 1896, the mother of
children as follows: Henry E., born March 31, 1864, married Sept. 22,
1886, Jennie Bushnell, and resides in Swansea; Sarah S., born March 18,
1870, married Rufus P. Walker, of Fall River, and they have one child,
Janet Elizabeth.
(VIII) Daniel Wilbur (6), son of Daniel and Nancy O. (Slade)
Wilbur, was born at the old homestead in Somerset. He was educated
in the public schools, the East Greenwich Academy, and Scholfield's
Business College, in Providence R. I. After his marriage Mr. Wilbur lived
for a year in the house across the street from his present home, for four
years in the old house on the home farm on Brayton Avenue, where
William W. Slade now Uves, and since October, 1898, has resided on the
old homestead.
A Republican in politics, Mr. Wilbur has served his town faithfully as
a member of the school committee, for ten years as selectman, and thirteen
years as registrar of voters. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the
South Somerset M. E. Church, and of Fall River, Lodge No. 219, 1. O. O. F.
Dec. 24, 1868, Mr. Wilbur married Marion F. Brown, daughter of
Marcus A. and Maria Frances (Wilbur) Brown. To them was born one
daughter. Bertha Frances, Sept. 7, 1871. She married June 5, 1889,
William Henry Pearse, of Swansea, and they had two children: Ehzabeth
Wilbur, born Aug. 29, 1890, who died Oct. 17, 1911; and Wilham Henry,
born Dec. 3, 1891. Mrs. Pearse died May 28, 1902.
Wilham Irvin Wilbur, son of Daniel and Nancy (Lee) Wilbur, and
grandson of James, the son of Daniel and Mary (Barnaby) Wilbur, (all
descended from William of Porsmouth, R. I.), was born Sept. 21, 1863, and
resides on the Warren road, in the house, a part of which was built by
Hugh Cole 2d. He married CaroUne Eliza Eddy, daughter of Seth W. and
Ruth Peck (Bosworth) Eddy, who was born Sept. 12, 1863. Their children
are: Mary Eddy, born Nov. 21, 1886; married Arnold Richardson Doe;
and Elizabeth Sherman, born July 14, 1890, who married Charles
WiUiam Frost.
Grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. WiUiam Irvin Wilbur:
Virginia Wilbur Frost daughter of Charles W. and Ehzabeth Sherman
(Wilbur) Frost born November 16, 1915.
Wilbur Stanley Doe son of Arnold R. and Mary Eddy (Wilbur) Doe,
born September 29, 1916.