Harry Backus and the Family's black servants Honeymoon in Jamaica by steamship in 1911Įarly trips to Lavallette in the new 1912 4-cyl Cadillac Steamship cruise in 1910 from New York to Caribbean & West IndiesĮarly biplane flights from nearby cow pasture Summer at HO's 'salmon preserve' on the St Lawrence RiverīKW raises money on the Main Line for a YMCAīuying a 1906 2-cyl Maxwell - top speed 35mphīKW joins the first Board of Health describes early sanitation standardsĭiscovering Lavallette and the New Jersey shore for the first time in 1908 Hike up Mt Edgecumb in the wilds of AlaskaĬruise of the sailboat Bertha captained by BKWīeginning work at the chocolate factory, by 'God's direction' To help readers 'get into' the story of the Wilbur Family, I would like to suggest a few episodes thatĮarly childhood beginning in 1870 in Camden, New Jerseyįamily trip to Europe by steamship, train and carriage in 1880 Included now in this digital Wilbur archive. So it seems appropriate that Ross' later work be Helen during the preparation of this volume, and was honored to help Ross in the its production andĭistribution to every living Wilbur at the time. I flew up from Chicago to visit Ross and his wife To compile this work, Ross interviewed his brothers and sisters who were still alive,Įxcerpted sections from the large trove of personal letters and memorabilia he had accumulated, andĪdded his own unique and loving memories. Of photos and personal memories, that fills-in this later period of the Wilbur Family history to some Wilbur, then retired and living in Minnesota, was motivated to compile this heartfelt 190-page book So 65+ years later, after a wonderful Wilbur Reunion in Virginia in 1980, youngest son Ross And he might have had difficulty recounting those years in JAM. Perhaps these were the 'sad' years of which he speaksĮarlier in the text. To end his story at this point, even tho he lived for many more years and died peacefully in 1945.īut World War I was brewing in Europe, tastes and customs were changing, and the businessĬlimate was becoming more competitive. The 900-page JAM/JAU story ends in 1912 when the family was still quite young and living in theīig house with many servants, gardens and optimism for the future. Writing, editing, laughing, and reliving their life together during the preparation of JAM/JAU. BKW speaks of spending many evenings with Anna Dean ('mother') this took form, and as it did, I pounded it out from my grey cells by the twofinger-and-thumb method. Written nine days later by BKW after a coronary event during the summer. NJ (pictured on p.62 of 'Happy Days') when JAM was only partially completed Written by sons Bert and Harry during the 1936 'Wilbur Welcomes Wilbur Reunion' in Lavallette, Supplemented by son Ross Wilbur's expanded Table covering Vol II and Vol III.
Necessarily fit exactly where inserted in the text.īegins with BKW's original 3-page Table of Contents which covers Vol I and Vol II, and later And then read these lettered addenda pages separately the events they describe do not I suggest that you read the main sequential
Memories on pages which he numbered A, B, C.etc. Please note that in many places BKW apparently had later thoughts and memories he wanted to addĪfter writing the main sequentially-numbered text. And none of them would have held up to the digitization process. I'm forever indebted to Teddy for introducing me to JAM, andįor her suggestion that I make this xerox for my family, particularly since all the original onion-skinĬopies are rapidly deteriorating. Stayed with Teddy at her small frame house in Haverford during the summer of 1981 and helped These threeĭigitized volumes were scanned from a Xerox copy made from Teddy and Nelson's carbon, when I 278, Vol II BKW hand-typed five carbon copies of JAM. Its sad enough any way, but it seems to me that you childrenĪs noted at the top of p.
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It seems best to describe events as a series of pictures, Old letters and papers to do so with me in anticipation of having lots of time out here, which I haveįailed to find, I have at last gotten at it. It is a long time since I wrote any of this, and I am still anxious to complete it. Autobiography of Bertrand Kingsbury WilburīKW began JAM in 1933 while still in Haverford, Pa, and wrote the final page in 1938 in Sanĭiego, California as he notes at the top of p.