Historical records matching 1st Lt. Wilber Elliiott Wilder
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About 1st Lt. Wilber Elliiott Wilder
1st Lt. Wilber Elliiott Wilder
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6160852/wilber_elliott_wilder
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to First Lieutenant (Cavalry) Wilber Elliiott Wilder, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 23 April 1882, while serving with 4th U.S. Cavalry, in action at Horseshoe Canyon, New Mexico. First Lieutenant Wilder assisted, under a heavy fire, to rescue a wounded comrade.
General Orders: Date of Issue: August 17, 1896
Action Date: April 23, 1882
Service: Army
Rank: First Lieutenant
Division: 4th U.S. Cavalry
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Indian Wars Medal of Honor Recipient. As then Lieutenant Wilber Elliott Wilder, the future general was cited for rescuing a wounded comrade under heavy fire during the 1882 Battle of Horseshoe Canyon. The young officer's courage was to prove as habitual as it was extraordinary. Four years later in 1886 he rode alone into the Apache camp to negotiate Geronimo's surrender. A career soldier and a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, he was appointed Adjutant of his alma mater in 1895. He returned to the battlefield during the Spanish-American War, however, and in 1916 joined Pershing's expedition to Mexico to subdue the bandit Pancho Villa. Later, when the US entered WWI he served as a brigadier general in France. Born in Atlas, MI, his first wife and the mother of his children was Violet Blair Martin of the prominent Throop-Martin family of "Willowbrook", near Auburn, New York. Widowed in 1919, he survived his second and third wives as well. He resided at "The Elms," in Ridgefield, Connecticut until his death in 1952.
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1st Lt. Wilber Elliiott Wilder's Timeline
| 1857 |
August 16, 1857
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Atlas, Genesee County, Michigan, United States
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| 1884 |
October 29, 1884
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Cochise County, Arizona, United States
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| 1888 |
November 19, 1888
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Owasco, Cayuga County, New York, USA
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| 1890 |
1890
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Owasco, Cayuga County, New York, USA
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| 1893 |
1893
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Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
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| 1952 |
January 30, 1952
Age 94
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Governors Island, New York County, New York, United States
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