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Source: Who's Who in America
Author: John W. Leonard

Wilcox, Elias Bunn
jurist;
b. Nash Co., NC, June 28, 1868;
s. E.W. and M.R. W.;
ed. pub. schs.; taught school;
grad. law Univ. of NC, 1895;
sutdent Ark., Normal Coll. (A.M., Ph.D.);
m. Aug. 1, 1894, Mary Townsend.
Admitted to bar by Supreme Court, NC, 1895;
commissioned capt. US vols., 1898;
served at Santiago, Cuba; later acting mil. gov., Dist of Holguin, Cuba;
comd. squadron of mounted inf. to fight bandits;
sp'l insp. schs. of Cuba, Oct., 1900, to Aug., 1902;
submitted plan by which schs. of Cuba were graded.
Since Aug., 1902, in Porto Rico; was dist. supt. schs., Guayana; 
sp'l del. of gov. inspecting elections;
sp'l asst. atty.-gen. 
Porto Rico, capt. Insular Police, Porto Rico;
Lt.-col. on staff gov.; Lt.-col. and acting chief, Insular Police; judge Dist. 
Court of Ponce, P.R., since Mar. 18, 1903.
Address: Ponce, R.R.

Additional Comments:
Source:
Who's Who in America
A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States.
Volume 3
1903-1905
Established, 1899, by Albert Nelson Marquis
Edited by John W. Leonard
Chicago
A.N. Marquis & Company
Publishers
1903

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