WILDER, Daniel Webster, journalist, born in Blackstone, Massachusetts, 15 July, 1832. He was graduated at Harvard in 1856, and became a lawyer and journalist. He has been an editor of the Leavenworth, Kansas, " Conservative " and "Times," the Fort Scott "Monitor," the Rochester, New York, " Express," the St. Joseph, Missouri, "Herald," and the " World," of Hiawatha, Kansas Mr. Wilder was one of the chief organizers of the Kansas historical society, and has served as its president. He was appointed surveyor-general of Kansas and Nebraska in 1863, and elected state auditor of Kansas in 1872 and 1874, and superintendent of insurance in 1887. He has published "Annals of Kansas" (Topeka, Kansas, 1875).