The father was Warren W. Wilbur, a native of Mystic, Conn. He was a coal shipper, and was a man of energetic character, well adapted to the upbuilding of material interests. Going to Philadelphia, he there followed his trade for some time, and then returned to Mauch Chunk, Carbon County, Pa., and engaged with the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. About the year 1859 he located in Bethlehem, engaging in business at South Bethlehem as a coal agent. He next entered the hardware business, later worked as a clerk in a coal office, and from that position he was pro- moted to be head shipper for the Schruyder Coal Company, and represented them in Bethlehem until his demise at that place, at the age of sixty- two. He was a Democrat in politics, and a zeal- ous member of the Presbyterian Church.