Amos Parker Wilder

Amos Parker Wilder, was a newspaper owner and editor, a powerful speaker, and the United States Consul General to Hong Kong and Shanghai. He was a newspaper editor in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Amos Parker Wilder

Born 1863 in Maine. USA

Son of Amos Lincoln Wilder and Charlotte Topliff (Porter) Wilder

Brother of George Porter Additon [half]

Husband of Isabella Thornton Niven — married 3 Dec 1894 [location unknown]

Father of Thornton Wilder

Died 1936 [location unknown]

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Biography

Amos was born in 1863. He was the son of Amos Wilder and Charlotte Topliff Porter.

Amos Parker Wilder grew up in the state capital of Augusta, and graduated from Yale College, where he was a scholar, singer, orator and editor of one of Yale's literary magazines, the Courant.

After graduating in 1884, he taught for two years and then became a journalist, working first as a reporter in Philadelphia. He returned to New Haven to edit the New Haven Palladium, while also working on a doctorate at Yale. He wrote his dissertation on the difficulties and possible solutions of governing American cities, and received his Ph.D. in 1892. When he lost his editorship at the Palladium for attacking political figures who had a financial interest in that newspaper, he left New Haven for a position as an editorial writer on a New York City paper.

In 1894, he traveled to the Midwest, intent on finding a newspaper to invest in and work on. He was able to buy a one-quarter interest in the Wisconsin State Journal.

O n December 3, 1894, he married Isabella Thornton Niven of Dobbs Ferry, New York.

As parents they were supportive, but sometimes overbearing. They dictated what their son Thornton Wilder did with his time, and made him work on farms in the summer so that he would be more well-rounded. They decided where he would go to college: to Oberlin, in Ohio, and then to Yale.

Amos Parker Wilder, was a newspaper owner and editor, a powerful speaker, and the United States Consul General to Hong Kong and Shanghai. He was a newspaper editor in Madison, Wisconsin.

He passed away in 1936.