The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . h, he madethe acquaintance of Mrs. Mary A. Irwin, a woman of many accompHshments,the widow of a cotton-planter, who after her first husbands death carriedon a cotton plantation at Mechanicsburg, near Yazoo City, Mississippi, andthey were married on the 6th of January, 1890. Mr. Whitaker died on the3rd of jNIarch. 1S97. Harvey Bradish Wilder, son of H. and Harriet E. Wilder, wasborn in Worcester October 12, 1836. Hewas educated in the public schools andat Leicester Academy. In 1S55 he be-came a clerk with Ticknor
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . h, he madethe acquaintance of Mrs. Mary A. Irwin, a woman of many accompHshments,the widow of a cotton-planter, who after her first husbands death carriedon a cotton plantation at Mechanicsburg, near Yazoo City, Mississippi, andthey were married on the 6th of January, 1890. Mr. Whitaker died on the3rd of jNIarch. 1S97. Harvey Bradish Wilder, son of H. and Harriet E. Wilder, wasborn in Worcester October 12, 1836. Hewas educated in the public schools andat Leicester Academy. In 1S55 he be-came a clerk with Ticknor & Fields, thewidely known publishers of Boston, intheir famous Old Corner returned to Worcester in vSeptember,1856, and entered the office of the regis-ter of deeds as head clerk, holding thisposition until the death of his father in1874, when he was appointed by the CountyCommissioners to succeed him as office he resigned in 1875, but waselected to fill it again in 1876, and bysuccessive reelections has continued to harvey b. The Worcester of 1898. 795 discharge its duties to the present time, having now been connectedwith the registry for a period of forty-two years, with the exception of theyear 1876. Mr. Wilder has always had an interest in military matters, and was amember of the City Guards from 1856 to 1861, and for many years hasbeen a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of is connected in Worcester with several social and other a public official he is distinguished by his uniform courtesy, and inprivate life is esteemed for his sterling qualities. Mr. Wilder has been twice married; first, to Anna F. Chapman of Ossipee,New Hampshire, who died November 12, 1864: second, to !Mary J.,daughter of Doctor [efferson Pratt of Hopkinton, June 14, 1870. He hasone son, Charles P., by the last marriage. Samuel Winslow* was born in Newton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts,February 28, 1S27. He was a des
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