FORMER CONSULGENERAL DEAD
LATE MR. D. F. WILBER Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. A cable message received to-day tells of the death of Mr. David Forrest Wilber, a former United States ConsulGeneral in New Zealand, at Oneonta, New York, at the age of 69. Mr. Wilber was born in Milford. New York, on December 7, 1859. In h» graduated from the Cazenovia. (N.Y.» Seminary. He married at the age <"■ • 44. and has wife dying in 1914, he married again two years later. He was interested in stock breeding aui farming, and was president of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America and the Cheviot Sheep Association of the United States and Canada. He was in Congress from 1895 to 1899. In 19W be was appointed consul at Barbados, West Indies, and two years later at Singapore. Straits Settlement. He later represented his country at Halifax: Kobe. Japan: Vancouver; Zurich. Switzerland: and a! Genoa. Italy. In 1921-22 Mr Wilber was stationed at Auckland, and in 1. —n« was Consul-General at Wellington. He returned to America, where stood for the Presidency m the Republican interests in 1924.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 434, 16 August 1928, Page 8
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