Bio of WILDER, Bertram Ward (b.1890), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol II, pg 748-749
BERTRAM WARD WILDER
Bertram Ward Wilder, attorney at law, was born in Morristown, Minnesota, January
24, 1890. His parents, Scott Winfield and Philena (Ward) Wilder, were natives of
Ohio and came to Minnesota in the year 1856, when this was a frontier state.
They made their way across the country with an ox team and took up their abode
on a farm near Morristown, where they lived for forty-two years. Mr. Wilder has
now retired from active business and for twenty years has made his home in
Minneapolis, he and his wife being highly esteemed by all who know them. Mrs.
Wilder is a lady of liberal education. She attended a girls' seminary in St.
Paul and taught school in Morristown, Warsaw and Shieldsville, Minnesota, in
early woman­hood. Throughout her life she has kept in touch with the trend of
modern thought and progress and is a most interesting conversationalist.
Bertram W. Wilder was educated in the public schools of Morristown and in the
North high school of Minneapolis, having become a resident of this city in the
year 1904. In that fall he entered high school and after completing his course
of study there he became a student in the St. Paul College of Law, in which he
remained for two years. He also spent two years in a law office, where he
studied and also gained valuable experience through actual assistance given to
the firm. He was admitted to the bar in 1916 and in 1918 he became a partner of
William A. Tautges, who had formerly directed his law reading. The firm of
Tautges & Wilder has built up a very large practice and handled many noted
cases, having just received a fee of fifteen thousand dollars for one accident
case. Thus to a point of prominence has Bertram W. Wilder made his way. A farm
boy to the age of fourteen years, he worked hard in the fields and then decided
to turn from agricultural to professional life and his thoroughness, persistency
of purpose and indefatigable energy have brought him to a most enviable position
in the ranks of the legal profession. He belongs to the Hennepin County, the
Minneapolis and the State Bar associations and also to the American Bar
Association.
On the 4th of October, 1909, Mr. Wilder was united in marriage to Miss Mae
Temple Lockwood of Minneapolis and they have become parents of three children:
Marian Evelyn, Dorothea Mae and Robert Warren. Fraternally Mr. Wilder is a
Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in
Minneapolis Consistory, and he is also a member of Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic
Shrine and of Ply Chapter, No. 19, Eastern Star, of which he is past patron. He
belongs to the Civic and Commerce Association, which indicates his interest in
the welfare and upbuilding of the city, particularly along the lines of
municipal progress, of government reform and of business expansion, and he is a
member of the Automobile Club.