[2] He attended the Chickering Scientific and Classical Institute, a public high school in Cincinnati, and graduated in 1874.

The firm prospered with the development of colored inks based on coal-dye tars and the introduction of lithography, and expanded until its operations in multiple cities made it the world's largest ink manufacturer of its day.

Together they had three daughters: He died of pneumonia at his home at 756 Park Avenue in New York City on May 12, 1930.

[7][16] The Wiborg family spent summer vacations in the Hamptons, renting rooms and cottages in Amagansett and East Hampton Village before purchasing 600 acres just west of the Maidstone Club from Mrs. Marshall Smith in spring 1909.

He expanded an existing cottage and eventually, in 1912, built a 30-room stucco mansion, known as The Dunes, that was among the largest in the area.