David Wilber

David Wilber (October 5, 1820 – April 1, 1890) was a United States representative from New York.

[1] Born near Quaker Street, a hamlet in Duanesburg, New York, he moved with his parents to Milford, Otsego County, N.Y.; attended the common schools; engaged in the lumbering trade, hop business, and agricultural pursuits; member of the board of supervisors of Otsego County in 1858, 1859, 1862, 1865, and 1866; director of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad; director of the Second National Bank of Cooperstown, N.Y.; president of the Wilber National Bank of Oneonta 1874 - 1890.

He served as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1880 and 1888 while moving to Oneonta, New York in 1886.

This time he was a candidate for renomination and was reelected to the Fifty-first Congress, but owing to ill health took the oath of office at his home and never attended a session.

[2] He died on April 1, 1890, in Oneonta, New York and was buried there in Glenwood Cemetery.