William Wilder

Wilder was born in Belfast, Maine. He moved to Gardner, Massachusetts, in 1866. He was president of Wilder Industries. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1900, and was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1909. He studied the monetary systems of Europe in 1909 and wrote many articles and pamphlets on monetary questions.

Wilder was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until his death in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 1913. He is buried at Crystal Lake Cemetery in Gardner.

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

• Who's who in State Politics, 1912 Practical Politics (1912) p. 29.
• United States Congress. "William Wilder (id: W000462)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• William H. Wilder, late a representative from Massachusetts, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1915

• Media related to William Wilder at Wikimedia Commons