Wilbur family.

LaFayette Wilbur (1834-1918) was a Vermont lawyer, first admitted to the bar in Lamoille County in 185l. He practiced law mainly in Chittenden County, with his office in Burlington or Jericho. He lived in Jericho, Vermont, except for twelve years spent in Burlington. He was the son of William Wilbur (1801-1882) and Betsy Fuller Wilbur, (1802-1888) of Waterville, Vermont. LaFayette received his early education in Waterville, Vermont, and later attended schools in Bakersfield, Underhill Center, Fairfax, and Morrisville, Vermont. He studied law under Thomas Gleed and specialized in civil law. He wrote a four-volume history of Vermont, Early History of Vermont, published in 1889-1903, and Life of LaFayette Wilbur and Family Genealogy, 1881. He was a member and clerk of the Congregational church in Jericho and later became a member of the Unitarian church in Burlington. LaFayette married Mercy Jane Morse of Underhill, Vermont, in 1861, and they had two sons, Earl Morse Wilbur and Ralph Williams Wilbur.

Earl Morse Wilbur (1866-1956) graduated from the University of Vermont in 1886, graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1890, and was ordained a Unitarian minister. He preached in Portland, Oregon, from 1890 to 1898. Following that, he served both as minister and instructor in the Theological School in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He then moved to Berkeley, California, where, in 1904, he co-founded the Starr King School for the Ministry (Unitarian), and became President and Professor of Practical Theology at the Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry. Earl married Dorothea Dix Eliot, daughter of Thomas L. Eliot, D.D., in Portland, Oregon, in 1898. His papers are at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

Ralph Williams Wilbur (b. 1869) graduated from the University of Vermont (1890), Burlington Business College, and Boston University Law School in 1892. He practiced law in Portland, Oregon, and married Alice Dunbar Heustis of Boston, in 1894.