Rollin Henry Wilbur was educated in a private school, and in Mt. Pleasant Military Academy at Sing Sing, N. Y., where he was located from 1876 to 1880. In the latter year he entered Lehigh University and took a special four-years course. In 1884 he entered the service of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, being in the office of H. Stanley Goodwin, General Superintendent, for two years. He was then made Assistant to the General Superintendent, and in 1888 became Assistant to the Second Vice-President. When the Lehigh Valley was leased to the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad in 1892, he became assistant to A. A. McLeod, President and General Manager, and the same year was given the position of Assistant to the Third Vice-President of the Philadelphia & Reading Road, with authority to act as Third Vice-President in the absence of that officer. January 1, 1893, Colonel Wilbur was appointed General Superintendent of the Eastern Division of the Philadelphia & Reading system, and in March 1894, the territory was extended to cover all railroad lines of the Lehigh Valley, this having returned to its old management. When the office of General Manager of the Lehigh Valley was abolished, May 1, 1894, our subject was given entire charge of the operating department, and also of the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company. He is a Director in the Lehigh Valley, the Easton & Amboy, and the Easton & Northwestern Railroad Companies, and is also a Director in the E. P. Wilbur Trust Company, the Sayre Metal Company, the Sayre Water Company, the Sayre Land Company, the Lehigh Valley Creosoting Company, the Eynon-Evans Manufacturing Company, and others. In addition to those named he is President of the Glenn Summit Hotel and Land Company, the Lehigh Valley Creosoting Company, and the Eynon-Evans Manufacturing Company. In the American Institute of Mining Engineers he is interested as a member, belongs to the Military Service Institute of the United States, and is a Director of the Mc-Clelland Memorial Association; he is also a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, and Director of the New York Lighterage and Transportation Company.