Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-02-22
DEATH OF G. NJ. WILDS.
CONTINUED from first page.

railroads was waiting and conveyed the
funeral party to Bristol. There Col. N.
F. Dunshee had charge of all the arrange !
ments. A large concourse OF Mr. Wllds's
boyhood friends were at the station In
Bristol and followed the hearse to the
cemetery. where burial took place In the
family lot. His college fraternity, the
Chi Psi-the only society he joined while
at college-went to Bristol in a body.
The bearers we're Ex-Governor Stewart, !
Rufus Wainwright and w. ii. Bliss of
Middlebury. +. ID. Fizhugh and j. B.
Laurie of st. Adams, Brainerd Kellogg
of BROOKLYN, n. Y, George Wright of
New York and Frank l.. Fish of Yer
gennes.
Business in Middlebury and Bristol
was suspended during the hour of the
funeral services. The college and schools
also had no morning sessions.
Undertaken \. j. Blsckmcr had charge
of the funeral arrangements.
Charles Manley Wlds was the only
son of Manley and Sophie (Percival)
Wlds. and was born In Bristol. this
county, Feb. s, 1856. He therefore had
passed by only week his 18th birthday.
He was married in 1879 to frankie
Wright, daughter of the late II. Bruce
Wright. who died June 3, 1891. TO them
were born four children, Bruce W, who
died in infancy; Percival, now aged Is
years a student in Middlebury college
Sophie, aged 10, and Elizabeth, aged II.
Two sisters of Mr.. Wilds died some years
ago, each having grown to womanhood
and married.
Mr.. Wilds's bovhood was passed in his
native town, where he fitted for college
in the academy then conducted by Lester
F. Benton. He came to Middlebury and
entered college with the class of 1875
lie not only took high standing in his
studies, but was an ncessant reader out
side as well. He excelled in mathematics
and metaphysics. Ola powerful body and
with tireless energy, he quickly made
his mark on the athletic field. as well.
Rugged aud strong, he gave promise Of
many years of health and usefulness.
After graduation at Middlebury he
took n postgraduate course at Yale, and
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Wales & Taft in Burlington, remaining
there uA,il 1879, when he entered the
office OF Stewart & Eldredge, as he de-
sired to practice in Addison county.
Soon after his admission to the bar he
formed IA partnership with Ex-Governor
Stewart, which only ended with his
death. Judge Russell ). Taft said Of Mr..
Wilds recently Ellis ability and capacity
is known to many, and | never knew a
man more radically honest, upright and
straightfor ward than he.''
Immediately upon coming to the bar
he attracted attention by his industry,
evident talents and faithfulness to the
interests of his clients. He was a hard
student still, and prepared his cases with
Infinite painstaking and mastery of de-
tail. While ready always in emergen-
cies, he chose 20 anticipate and discount
them and preferred to be prepared rather
than to d"pend upon the inspiration of
the moment, either in attack or defense.
Thus he made his way to the forefront
and soon held the offices of states attor-
ney, village attorney and town law
agent. Al public affairs interested him.
He WAS in politics, but not as politician.
He was on the school board and became
ii member of the corporation of his alma
mater. In 1892 he was one of the presi-
dental electors from Vermont. A first
class corporation lawyer. he soon became
a part OF the litigation between railroads,
and in March, 1897, was retained by
Charles NJ. Hays, general manager of
the Grand Trunk railway, who was in
search of competent counsel not con-
nected with other Vermont roads. Mr..
Hays being advised by Aldace +. Walker,
the head of the AtchisOn system, that
Mr.. Wilds was the proper person for the
place, he was retained, and his cOnnec-
ton with the reorganization of the Cen
trail Vermont railroad is matter of pub
lie knowledge, there probably being no
other man III the state who could have
done this work so well. He was a
director of the Grand Trunk and Central
Vermont corporations.
A meeting of the bar was held at the
County Clerks office at 10 o'clock a. m.
l.. ID. Eldredge called the meet ting TO-.
gether. Judge Loveland Munson was
elected chairman and Fred b. Debervlle
secretary. Mr.. Deberville presented
the following resolutions, which were
adopted:
We the members of the bar of the State of
Yer o assembled AT Middlehury on the 18th
day of February, 1901, at the obsequies of our
late friend and brother, Charles NJ. Wilds, an /
in honor of his memory hereby adopt the
following resolutions:
l. Resolv. d. That the legal fraternity has