. Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review . nd they havetwo children—Jean, born in 1883, and Sterling, in 1885. Mr. Mortonis a member of the Chicago Historical Society, and is also identifiedwith the Commercial, Chicago, Midlothian, South Shore and Caxtonclubs, of Chicago; Chicago Golf, of Wheaton, Illinois, and theLawyers and Transportation clubs, of New York. His businessoffice is in the Railway Exchange building, Chicago. Thomas Edward Wilder, president of Wilder & Co. (incorporatedin 1907), leading tanners a
. Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review . nd they havetwo children—Jean, born in 1883, and Sterling, in 1885. Mr. Mortonis a member of the Chicago Historical Society, and is also identifiedwith the Commercial, Chicago, Midlothian, South Shore and Caxtonclubs, of Chicago; Chicago Golf, of Wheaton, Illinois, and theLawyers and Transportation clubs, of New York. His businessoffice is in the Railway Exchange building, Chicago. Thomas Edward Wilder, president of Wilder & Co. (incorporatedin 1907), leading tanners and wholesale jobbers of leather, is a native of Lancaster, Massachusetts, born on the* 15th of August, 1855, being a son of Charles Lewis and Harriet Ellen (Harris) Wilder. He obtainedthe foundation of his education in his native town, chiefly at theLancaster Academy, afterward pursuing a course at the Worcester(Mass.) Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated with thedegree of B. S. Mr. Wilder never entered into practice as an engineer, but afterteaching school for about a year came to Chicago in 1875 and ob-. 1 THI WW YORK 1 TVTTT|T TO T TOXj A Ti^P I^,. VWOX 1KB CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY 1085 tained a clerkship with Walker, Oakley & Co., well known the style of T. E. Wilder he established a leather commissionbusiness in 1878, and in the following year formed the firm of John-son & Wilder, manufacturers of cut soles. This was succeeded byWilder & Hale in 1880, and in 1887 the business assumed its presentname, Wilder & Co., with himself as senior partner and John as junior. The business covers a number of specialties, asbesides tanning and wholesale jobbing the firm manufactures cut soleand shoe bottom stock. For years the Wilder brothers had followedthe co-operative plan in the conduct of their business with the bestfinancial and most harmonious results, making it a practice to see thattheir employes prospered with them. In December, 1906, they an-
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