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Box 20

 Container

Contains 33 Results:

Wilder Breckenridge (1899-1976): two photos: one cabinet card dated Feb. 1901 (at 19 months); one portrait, dated 1915 (at age 16) grandson of BGW: son of Mary N. Wilder and Roeliff Morton Breckenridge, '92, Cornell Class of 1919 brother of Hugh, '26, and brother-in-law, via sister Anne, of Mordelo Lee Vincent, Jr., '26

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

David Wilder, Jr. (BGW's brother, b. 1837) and his wife

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Edward Wilder (BGW's brother, b. 1843)

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Mabel Scott Wilder (b. 1869), daughter of Edward Wilder (in group photo with her two brothers, as young children; photo by Imperial, San Francisco: see two below)

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Edward Twichell Wilder (1872-1929), '93, son of Edward Wilder (see above)

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Walter Robb Wilder (1875-1934), '96, son of Edward Wilder (see above)

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Mary Catherine Scott Wilder (?--unidentified, but very possibly wife of Edward Wilder (photo by Imperial, San Francisco; she resembles Mabel Scott Wilder in photo above)

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Sophronia Wilder Edgerly (1823-1915), in 1880 at age 57; BGW's paternal aunt (youngest child of his grandparents David Wilder and Sally Nourse Butler)

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

BGW's cousins: young children of Sophronia Wilder and James Wheeler Edgerly: 9 miniature tintypes, four of which identified only by first name only one tintype has complete name: William Drew Edgerly (1866-1869)

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.

Mary Nichols Barnard, sister of Sarah Nichols Wilder

 File — Box: 20
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: These papers consist of correspondence with colleagues and friends; personal prose and poetry; Civil War correspondence and history with papers and clippings re Burt Green Wilder's career and service as a medical cadet at the Judiciary Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1862, and as assistant surgeon (First Lieutenant), 1863, and then surgeon of the Massachusetts 55th Black Volunteer Regiment until 1865. After the Civil War and for the rest of his life,...
Dates: 1841-1925.