New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ¢; MRTROPOLIS. Mr. Dayton is member of City and State l^ar Associa-tions, Harlem J^emocratic Club, Sagamore, Manhattan andPlayers Clubs and the Sons of the Revolution. He residesat No. 13 Mount Morris Park, West. VINCENT M. WILCOX. Very few New Yorkers can show a brighter record thanColonel Vincent Meigs Wilcox, whether as regards a militaryor civic career, or both combined. He was born in Madi-son, New Haven County, Ct., on October 17, 1828, andbelongs to one of the oldest families in New England. Theannals of Bury St. Edmo
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ¢; MRTROPOLIS. Mr. Dayton is member of City and State l^ar Associa-tions, Harlem J^emocratic Club, Sagamore, Manhattan andPlayers Clubs and the Sons of the Revolution. He residesat No. 13 Mount Morris Park, West. VINCENT M. WILCOX. Very few New Yorkers can show a brighter record thanColonel Vincent Meigs Wilcox, whether as regards a militaryor civic career, or both combined. He was born in Madi-son, New Haven County, Ct., on October 17, 1828, andbelongs to one of the oldest families in New England. Theannals of Bury St. Edmonds in the county of Sulfoik,England, show the family to have flourished inBritain even before the Norman Conciuest. William Wil-cox, a lineal descendant of the renowned Sir John Wilcox,settled in Stratford, Ct., as early as 1639, and is recordedin the history of the ])eriod as a rejjresentative in theGeneral Court of Hartford The Colonels maternalgrandmother was Miss Mary Field Meigs, sister of Field and daughter of Timothy Field, a distinguished. V. M. WILCOX. officer in tlu: Revolutionary war, ancestor of tlie presentcflebrated family of that name, which includes Cyrus David Dudley Field. Young Wilcox was edu( atcd in Lees Academy in hisnative place, and after leaving it taught school for He subsecpienlly became a merchant and actjuiredconsiderable i)rominence in local affairs. In i860 he wentto Scranton, Pa., and was conducting an extensive mercantilebusiness in that city when the war broke out and the Northwas called to arms. Mr. Wilcox, who had received a militarytraining in the Connecticut Militia under (leneral Hardee,responded at once, and organizing a company, nmong theyoung men of hi.; actpiaintance chiefly, many of wliom asofficers were attached to the i32d Pennsylvania Regiment,went to the front immediately as Lieutenant Colonel of that organization, which has so splendid a war record inthe history of the war by Cenerals McClel
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