DR. C. V. WILDER
Doctor C. V. Wilder came to Atlantic in January, 1874, with his father, Doctor B. A. Wilder, and the two entered into partnership which continued until October, 1883, when the elder physician removed to Dakota. He is a native of Stanstead, Canada, born September 22, 1851. When he was about four years old, his parents removed to Dalton, Sauk county, Wisconsin, where the subject of this sketch resided until he attained the age of eighteen. He attended the usual district schools, and finished his preliminary education at the Jefferson Liberal Institute. After leaving this educational establishment he essayed mercantile life as a clerk in a store, but soon gave that up to follow in the footsteps of his father. He commenced the study of medicine with Doctor Blake, of Lodi, Wisconsin, with whom he remained eighteen months. In the winter of 1871-2, he attended a course of lectures at the Homeopathic Medical college at Cincinnati, graduating from that institution in 1872. He at once entered upon the practice of medicine. In 1880, he feeling a lack in some departments of his science, took a course of lectures in the Hanover Medical college, which he repeated in 1882, and obtained the diploma of that college, in the latter year. Doctor Wilder is the leading homoeopathist in the city.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 403.
