Person:Wilbur Canaday (1)

Wilbur, the youngest of the brothers, graduated from Harvard in 1917. After graduation he joined the army and served in World War I as Captain of Infantry in the 78th Division. After the war he married Rachel Brown and settled in Stamford, Connecticut. He became an advertising manager for Loam and Fink, a manufacturer of toiletry preparations, and eventually became a vice president of Lentheric, a Frnech perfume maker with offices in Paris, London, and New York. He was a member of the Harvard Club of New York City and a director of the Junior Board of Trade. He died in Stamford, Connecticut, in September, 1879, at the age of 82.

    New Castle benefitted as well from the Canaday family. In the 1950's Ward, Miron, Frank, and Wilbur made the first large donation to the building of the First Christian Church as a memorial to their parents.
    Their final resting place is South Mound Cemetery's most prominent feature, a neo-Greek temple atop the high mound, easily visible to passersby on Memorial Drive. Such an edifice, one thinks, must commemorate the life of a successful person. In this case, it commemorates the lives of four such persons, The Canaday brothers: Ward, Miron, Frank, and Wilbur. Although each found his personal success in a different sphere, they were remarkable in their generous sharing of the fruits of those successes. Their philanthropy resulted in donations of a college library, a university dormitory, and a wing of an art museum. In death, however, they returned to New Castle. (Taken from The Henry County Historicalog, Spring, 2001)

1. ↑ Thomas D. Hamm & Mary Louise Reynolds. The Henry County Historicalog,. (Volume 29, Number 1, Spring 2001).