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Marshall Pinckney Wilder was born on September 22, 1798 at Rindge, N. H. , a descendant of Thomas Wilder, freeman of Charlestown, Massachussets, in 1640. He was the eldest son of Samuel Locke and Anna (Sherwin) Wilder.
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Marshall Pinckney Wilder was born on September 22, 1798 at Rindge, N. H. , a descendant of Thomas Wilder, freeman of Charlestown, Massachussets, in 1640. He was the eldest son of Samuel Locke and Anna (Sherwin) Wilder.
Marshall Pinckney was educated at a district school, at an academy at New Ipswich, and by private tutor.
Given choice of occupation at sixteen, he chose farming, a preference which he was forced to yield to the demands of his father's mercantile business. At twenty-one he was given a partnership, a responsibility to which he soon added the duties of postmaster at Rindge and the teaching of vocal music. He moved to Boston in 1825, and was a partner successively in a number of commission firms. Having acquired a fortune within a reasonable period, he proceeded to exercise his abilities in diverse directions. As representative in the state legislature in 1839, member of the executive council in 1849, president of the state Senate in 1850, an ardent supporter of Webster while he lived, and one of the founders of the Constitutional Union party in 1860, he consistently endeavored to act as a statesman rather than a politician. After the Civil War, during which he strongly supported the government, he took little active part in politics. Shortly after his removal to Boston, he joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company; he was its captain in 1856 and lived to be its oldest past commander. With other public-spirited citizens he founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1861; he served it as vice-president, 1865-70, and as trustee, 1870-86. He was a member of the New-England Historic Genealogical Society from 1850 and its president from 1868 to 1886. Through his efforts the Society obtained a new building, created an endowment, enlarged its collections, and encouraged historical research and publication. In the Masonic order Wilder rose to the thirty-third degree and became a member of the Supreme Council. He gave his first allegiance, however, to agriculture. Changing his residence to Dorchester, a suburb of Boston, in 1832, he planted a nursery and began extensive experiments in horticulture which continued for more than fifty years. He developed many new and important varieties of flowers and fruits, including the famous "Wilder Rose, " and at one time had nine hundred varieties of pears growing in his garden. His experiments in hybridization were made possible through regular importations of plants from abroad. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society owed much to his counsel and leadership. It had established Mount Auburn Cemetery, ornamenting it with trees and flowers, and in 1835 Wilder devised a contract whereby, in return for agreeing to the separation of the Horticultural Society from the cemetery project, the Society received a percentage of the sales of cemetery lots, thus accumulating an endowment which by 1878 amounted to more than $150, 000. Under Wilder's presidency from 1840 to 1848 the organization built its first hall and otherwise greatly extended its interests. Acting for this Society in 1848 Wilder issued a call for a convention of fruit growers in New York City, which resulted in the formation of the American Pomological Society. Wilder was elected president and served repeatedly for thirty-eight years, during which period the organization molded the whole development of American horticulture. In September 1883 he proposed a reform in the nomenclature of the fruits of America which was later carried out. In his first address before the Norfolk Agricultural Society, which he helped to organize in 1849 and over which he presided for twenty years, he pleaded the great need for agricultural education. At Wilder's instigation, in September 1851, the several agricultural societies of Massachusetts formed a central board of agriculture. As president of this organization he prevailed upon the legislature to establish a state board of agriculture in 1852. Chosen senior member of this body, he directed its activities until shortly before his death. In 1852 as representative of the new Massachusetts board, he requested other state boards and societies to appoint delegates to a national agricultural meeting in Washington, which resulted in the formation of the United States Agricultural Society. Wilder was made president and held office for six years. This society by its national fairs and exhibitions stimulated agricultural improvement; it was influential in the establishment, in the early sixties, of the office of United States commissioner of agriculture, and supported legislation for the creation of state colleges of agriculture. Wilder was a leader in the formation of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, one of the first to be organized in any state, and was a trustee of this institution to the end of his life. As a member of the United States Commission to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 he made a valuable report on the horticultural exhibits there. In 1870 he visited California to survey its horticultural products. The addresses which he delivered as president or other officer of the various societies and institutions with which he was connected would fill volumes. He also contributed numerous articles to agricultural journals such as the Horticulturist, New England Farmer, Country Gentleman, and Genesee Farmer. He died suddenly, in the midst of his activities, at the age of eighty-eight.
For many years he was known as the chief citizen of Boston; for more than sixty years he devoted his money and his talents to public service, consistently evidencing an intelligence, a whole-hearted enthusiasm, and a lack of self-interest which made him one of the best loved and most influential men of his time. The results of his work are felt today in the various societies and institutions which he founded and developed, and in his valuable contributions to the knowledge and practice of horticulture.
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Wilder was a born promoter and leader of men. Original in ideas and practical in developing them, he inspired unusual confidence by his genial character and solid reputation as a man of business.
On December 31, 1820, at Rindge, Wilder married Tryphosa Jewett, daughter of Dr. Stephen Jewett. He had six children by this marriage, two of whom died before their mother, whose death occurred in July 1831. On August 29, 1833, he married Abigail Baker, daughter of Capt. David Baker of Franklin, Massachussets, by whom he had six children. She died in April 1854, and on September 3, 1855, he married her sister, Julia Baker. By this marriage he had two children. Only six of his fourteen children lived to adult life.
