Born 4 January 1862 at Greenville, Meriwether County, Georgia
Died 23 June 1922 at Roxbury, Delaware County, New York
Wilbur was the younger of two sons born to Horace Tupper and Mary Elizabeth Keator Tupper. His parents, Roxbury natives, relocated to Greenville about 1859 where his father was a teacher. His father joined the Confederate Army and was killed in 1862 during the Battle of Sharpsburg, known as the Battle of Antietam by Union forces. His mother returned to New York and married to Luman Hildreth about 1866. It was Luman who assumed responsibility for raising Wilbur to maturity. Wilbur was raised at Gilboa, New York where his step-father was first a harness maker and later a farmer. Wilbur married to Harriet Preston Wheeler on 14 January 1886 at Roxbury. They made their home at Roxbury where he was a painter and his wife, for a brief period of time, was a librarian. He was active in the John More Association and played the parts of a villager and one of the Minute Men in the More-Roxbury Pageant at the 1915 John More Association Reunion. He was, at the time of his death, a Master of Coeur de Lion Lodge, Chapter #571, Free and Accepted Masons. Wilbur and Harriet were the parents of one child, George Wheeler Tupper.
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