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Katharine Victoria “Kit” <I>Thomas</I> Wilbur

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Katharine Victoria “Kit” Thomas Wilbur

Birth
Death
29 Aug 1950 (aged 78–79)
Fountain Hill, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
EP Wilbur Mausoleum
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Katharine Victoria "Kitty" (Thomas) Wilbur (1871-1950), daughter of John and Helen (Thomas) Thomas. Married October 1891 in Hokendauqua, to Elisha Packer Wilbur, Jr.

Their children were Robert Lockhart Wilbur (1892-1960), Helen Thomas "Hennie" (Wilbur) Stephenson (1894-1983), and Miss Stella "Tessie" Wilbur (1896-1983).

Robert Lockhart Wilbur was a graduate of Yale University, Class of 1915, Bachelor of Philosophy.
— Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. Published by The University, 1924.

"Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lockhart Wilbur will spend Christmas with his parents in Pottsville, Pennsylvania."
— Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) Wednesday, December 23, 1925. Page 10.

A nephew of Mrs. Wilbur's husband was called Elisha Packer Wilbur III (1910-1990). He was a son of Col. Harry Packer Wilbur and Mary Cornell "Mamie" (Widdifield) Wilbur, although he was named as the 3rd.

Mrs. Elisha Packer Wilbur, Jr. died on August 29, 1950 at St. Luke's Hospital, Fountain Hill borough, Bethlehem, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

History of St. Luke's Hospital
https://www.slhn.org/about/our-history

"For more information on the history of Fountain Hill, readers are referred to the following scholarly work: Redding, Edward J. The History of Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania Bethlehem: Oaks Printing Company, 1996."
https://www.fountainhill.org/about-fountain-hill/

"Marriage of Elisha Packer Wilbur, Jr. to Katherine Victoria Thomas"
By Frank Whelan
Published online July 2023 by WFMZ.com
https://www.wfmz.com/marriage-of-elisha-packer-wilbur-jr-to-katherine-victoria-thomas/image_e2056550-16cf-11ee-a33f-6ba309ba5b72.html

Interment in the Wilbur Mausoleum:
"History's Headlines: Victorian Wedding"
By Frank Whelan
Published online July 2023 by WFMZ.com
https://www.wfmz.com/features/historys-headlines/historys-headlines-victorian-wedding/article_5179a1a6-16b4-11ee-aa0d-e30970950250.html

The Morning Call, August 5, 1891, Page 1.
"1891 Kitty V Thomas to marry EP Wilbur, Jr"
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-1891-kitty-v-thomas-to/11206051/

The Allentown Democrat, October 28, 1891, Page 3.
"1891 Oct Thomas Wilbur wedding"
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-allentown-democrat-1891-oct-thomas-w/22656493/

The Allentown Leader, May 23, 1916, Page 3.
"1916 E P Wilbur daughter, Helen Thomas to wed Francis Lewis Stephenson"
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-allentown-leader-1916-e-p-wilbur-dau/28744274/

Robert Lockhart Wilbur, Bachelor of Philosophy, 1915.
Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. Yale University. The University, 1924.
https://books.google.com/books?id=qGc9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA403&lpg=PA403&dq=robert+lockhart+wilbur&source=bl&ots=uZnCWUxEZV&sig=ACfU3U1dEG9Dbc2d-TENy3BRpkLpWFlr6g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPi7KGuZmBAxUPjYkEHaIsC7Y4ChDoAXoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=robert%20lockhart%20wilbur&f=false

Robert Lockhart Wilbur, Yale University, 1915. Named as a cousin of Robert Rathbun Paret (1896-1925), Yale University Class of 1918.
Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University... Published by Yale University, 1926.
https://books.google.com/books?id=T6A3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=robert+lockhart+wilbur&source=bl&ots=WFtLxtzAO3&sig=ACfU3U3fqORycOxex2bpbfcjvqtjzFBxpQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPi7KGuZmBAxUPjYkEHaIsC7Y4ChDoAXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=robert%20lockhart%20wilbur&f=true

"Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lockhart Wilbur..."
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) Wednesday, December 23, 1925. Page 10.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/97692920/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjk3NjkyOTIwLCJpYXQiOjE2OTcwOTIyNzUsImV4cCI6MTY5NzE3ODY3NX0.jrCoQbrbTUFQ2Jq728YRmBJyN6jCVmT3tL3MDz64Wvo

Sister of David Hopkin Thomas, Miriam Thomas (Mrs. Perry Harrison), Miss Elizabeth Hopkins "Bessie" Thomas, Samuel Richards Thomas, and Capt. John Williams Thomas. Three further siblings (Blanche Thomas, Harry J. Thomas, and Helen Thomas) died at very young ages.

Bartholomew, Craig L. & Lance E. Metz Periodical: The Anthracite Iron Industry of the Lehigh Valley Publication: Center for Canal History & Technology, Easton, Pa., 1988

Refer to biographies of other family members on Find A Grave for further information on family history, with references and resources for research.

Family biography of John Thomas, father of Katharine Victoria (Thomas) Wilbur:
Pages 208 and 209.
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Volume 2
By John Woolf Jordan, Edgar Moore Green, George Taylor Ettinge.
Lewis Publishing Company.
Katharine Victoria "Kitty" (Thomas) Wilbur (1871-1950), daughter of John and Helen (Thomas) Thomas. Married October 1891 in Hokendauqua, to Elisha Packer Wilbur, Jr.

Their children were Robert Lockhart Wilbur (1892-1960), Helen Thomas "Hennie" (Wilbur) Stephenson (1894-1983), and Miss Stella "Tessie" Wilbur (1896-1983).

Robert Lockhart Wilbur was a graduate of Yale University, Class of 1915, Bachelor of Philosophy.
— Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. Published by The University, 1924.

"Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lockhart Wilbur will spend Christmas with his parents in Pottsville, Pennsylvania."
— Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) Wednesday, December 23, 1925. Page 10.

A nephew of Mrs. Wilbur's husband was called Elisha Packer Wilbur III (1910-1990). He was a son of Col. Harry Packer Wilbur and Mary Cornell "Mamie" (Widdifield) Wilbur, although he was named as the 3rd.

Mrs. Elisha Packer Wilbur, Jr. died on August 29, 1950 at St. Luke's Hospital, Fountain Hill borough, Bethlehem, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

History of St. Luke's Hospital
https://www.slhn.org/about/our-history

"For more information on the history of Fountain Hill, readers are referred to the following scholarly work: Redding, Edward J. The History of Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania Bethlehem: Oaks Printing Company, 1996."
https://www.fountainhill.org/about-fountain-hill/

"Marriage of Elisha Packer Wilbur, Jr. to Katherine Victoria Thomas"
By Frank Whelan
Published online July 2023 by WFMZ.com
https://www.wfmz.com/marriage-of-elisha-packer-wilbur-jr-to-katherine-victoria-thomas/image_e2056550-16cf-11ee-a33f-6ba309ba5b72.html

Interment in the Wilbur Mausoleum:
"History's Headlines: Victorian Wedding"
By Frank Whelan
Published online July 2023 by WFMZ.com
https://www.wfmz.com/features/historys-headlines/historys-headlines-victorian-wedding/article_5179a1a6-16b4-11ee-aa0d-e30970950250.html

The Morning Call, August 5, 1891, Page 1.
"1891 Kitty V Thomas to marry EP Wilbur, Jr"
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-1891-kitty-v-thomas-to/11206051/

The Allentown Democrat, October 28, 1891, Page 3.
"1891 Oct Thomas Wilbur wedding"
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-allentown-democrat-1891-oct-thomas-w/22656493/

The Allentown Leader, May 23, 1916, Page 3.
"1916 E P Wilbur daughter, Helen Thomas to wed Francis Lewis Stephenson"
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-allentown-leader-1916-e-p-wilbur-dau/28744274/

Robert Lockhart Wilbur, Bachelor of Philosophy, 1915.
Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. Yale University. The University, 1924.
https://books.google.com/books?id=qGc9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA403&lpg=PA403&dq=robert+lockhart+wilbur&source=bl&ots=uZnCWUxEZV&sig=ACfU3U1dEG9Dbc2d-TENy3BRpkLpWFlr6g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPi7KGuZmBAxUPjYkEHaIsC7Y4ChDoAXoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=robert%20lockhart%20wilbur&f=false

Robert Lockhart Wilbur, Yale University, 1915. Named as a cousin of Robert Rathbun Paret (1896-1925), Yale University Class of 1918.
Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University... Published by Yale University, 1926.
https://books.google.com/books?id=T6A3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=robert+lockhart+wilbur&source=bl&ots=WFtLxtzAO3&sig=ACfU3U3fqORycOxex2bpbfcjvqtjzFBxpQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPi7KGuZmBAxUPjYkEHaIsC7Y4ChDoAXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=robert%20lockhart%20wilbur&f=true

"Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lockhart Wilbur..."
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) Wednesday, December 23, 1925. Page 10.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/97692920/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjk3NjkyOTIwLCJpYXQiOjE2OTcwOTIyNzUsImV4cCI6MTY5NzE3ODY3NX0.jrCoQbrbTUFQ2Jq728YRmBJyN6jCVmT3tL3MDz64Wvo

Sister of David Hopkin Thomas, Miriam Thomas (Mrs. Perry Harrison), Miss Elizabeth Hopkins "Bessie" Thomas, Samuel Richards Thomas, and Capt. John Williams Thomas. Three further siblings (Blanche Thomas, Harry J. Thomas, and Helen Thomas) died at very young ages.

Bartholomew, Craig L. & Lance E. Metz Periodical: The Anthracite Iron Industry of the Lehigh Valley Publication: Center for Canal History & Technology, Easton, Pa., 1988

Refer to biographies of other family members on Find A Grave for further information on family history, with references and resources for research.

Family biography of John Thomas, father of Katharine Victoria (Thomas) Wilbur:
Pages 208 and 209.
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Volume 2
By John Woolf Jordan, Edgar Moore Green, George Taylor Ettinge.
Lewis Publishing Company.

Gravesite Details

Katharine Victoria "Kit" or "Kitty" (Thomas) Wilbur
Spelling variations:
Catharine, Catherine, Katharine, Katherine, Kittie



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