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Show EDWARD B. WILDER Helped to Survey Roadbed of the Michigan Central Railroad. FIRST TO FIND OIL JX THE JUAB COUNTRY Miniii"' Operations Extended From Cuba to Famous Mines on Comslock Lode. Tidward Biuns Wilder, flo years of age, is dead. He died of old ago at the homo of his son-in-law, Charles H. Dowse. G2l East Fourth South street, of tho firm of Dowse & Morris. Monday night at !) o'clock. The end came peacefully, with none but the immediate imme-diate members of the family present. Tho arrangements for Iho funeral hnve as yot not. been made. L'Mward Binns Wilder was a civil engineer en-gineer of note during the early part of his life, having helped to liiyout the original roadbed ol the Michigan Central railroad. He was born in the Island of Jamaica on August fl, 1S1-1. of American parents, his father. Asa Wells Wilder, being United Slates eou-sul eou-sul to that country. With Michigan Central. Wilder received his early education in the United States and for a number of years was connected with the Michigau Central railroad in the capncilv of civil engineer. Severing his connection with the railroad company he went to Cuba, where he look charge of a jiinuber of copper jiroporties until sh'fcy before (ho Civil war. when lie jJfcrned to the United Stales. WlieiJ't.all for volunteers came to the iimHbI Ihe South, ho enlisted in the CoTWUorate army and served with distinctioAuntil the close of. the war. In the early sixties, he weut id San Francisco. Oil., which place he made his home for a number of yeais. It was during his residence in .au Francisco Fran-cisco that he became superintendent of what was then known as the Old Coin-stock Coin-stock mine at Virginia City. Nov., and employed in a mine as a miner .lohu V. M'nekay, who afterwaids became a miniug magnate and part owner of the famous Virginia City Consolidated. First Oil Discoverer. Tn l.SU:! Wilder came to Utah, where he has remained over since, and engaged en-gaged in tho mining engineering business. busi-ness. He located nud developed the Red Cloud mine at Lovelocks. Utah, which he afterwards sold to a Scottish syndicate. For a number of years he eDagcd in mining the Mercur and Ophir and was the first man to discover oil in the .luab country, building a retort: re-tort: at that place, and boiling iho oil out of the shale. During his out ire life he enjoyed the best of health, which was showu by the fact, that at the age of XI he paid a visit to his brother. William Wilder, a prominent, attorney of Xe.v: Orleans, who had reached the age of ?t. Fd-Ward Fd-Ward B. Wilder is survived by three children. Mrs. George Hubbard, whose husband is with the Ilibcrnia bauk at San Francisco; Herbert Wilder, connected con-nected with the Lower Mammoth mine, and Agnes Dowso o'f Salt Lako City. |