Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Wilber, Henry Peachey 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

HENRY PEACHEY WILBER, D.D., of Santa Monica, is a native of Ohio and was born in
the town of Elyria, Lorain county. His father, Francis Augustus Wilbur, Ph. D.,
was born in Vermont, a descendant of Captain Church of King Philip's War fame.
His grandfather saw service in the Revolutionary War and his father was a
soldier in the War of 1812. Dr. Wilber's mother, Favelle Peachey Wilber, was
born in London, England, and came to this country in childhood. She grew to
womanhood in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, graduated from Mrs. Ryland's School
for young ladies and became a teacher in the Cincinnati public schools before
her marriage. The Rev. Francis A. Wilber was a Presbyterian minister at Elyria,
Ohio, for a period of about thirteen years. Later he conducted classical
academies in Ohio and Indiana. Dr. Wilber was prepared for college at his
father's academy in Wabash, Indiana, and graduated from the classical department
of Wooster University, Wooster, Ohio, in 1887. He studied theology at Princeton
and at Union Seminaries. Before coming to California he was professor of Latin
in Pierre University at Pierre, South Dakota, and subsequently was pastor of
Presbyterian Churches at St. Lawrence and at Rapid City, South Dakota. In
January, 1893, he came to California and was pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Fernando from 1893 to 1898. From 1898 to 1899 he was professor of Latin in
Occidental College, Los Angeles. In the year 1900 he assumed the pastorate of
the First Presbyterian Church at Santa Monica, which he relinquished in 1907.
Dr. Wilber received the honorary degree of D.D. from his Alma Mater, the
University of Wooster, Ohio.

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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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