Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist. | |  Zalmon Wildman (1775-1835) — of Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,February16, 1775.Democrat.Hatmanufacturer;banker;postmaster atDanbury,Conn., 1808-35; member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives, 1818-19;U.S.Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1835; died in office1835.Died inWashington,D.C.,December10, 1835 (age60 years, 297days).Interment atWoosterCemetery, Danbury, Conn.; cenotaph atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C. | | Eli Thacher Hoyt (1793-1883) — also known asEli T. Hoyt — of Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,September25, 1793.Member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives from Danbury, 1833-34, 1849;member ofConnecticutstate senate 11th District, 1844.Died in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,August13, 1883 (age89 years, 322days).Interment atWoosterCemetery, Danbury, Conn.| |  Relatives: Sonof Enos Hoyt and Sarah (Penfield) Hoyt; married to Mary Wildman;first cousin ofZalmonWildman; first cousin once removed ofFrederickSeymour Wildman; second cousin twice removed ofRobertTreat Paine andGeorgeThacher (1754-1824); third cousin ofAbelHoyt; third cousin once removed ofGeorgeThacher (1790-1857); third cousin twice removed ofAaronBurr; fourth cousin ofHenryCharles Thacher; fourth cousin once removed ofJabezHuntington,JoshuaCoit,ElijahBoardman,WilliamBostwick,AugustusSeymour Porter,SamuelLathrop,PeterBuell Porter,DanielWarner Bostwick,DavidMunson Osborne,ThomasChandler Thacher andDwightArthur Silliman. | | | | Political family:Wildmanfamily of Danbury, Connecticut (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). |
| | Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman (1801-1877) — also known asNathaniel H. Wildman — of Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,May 3,1801.Member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives from Danbury, 1837, 1850.DiedAugust10, 1877 (age76 years, 99days).Interment atWoosterCemetery, Danbury, Conn. | | Frederick Seymour Wildman (1805-1893) — also known asFrederick S. Wildman — of Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,January20, 1805.Republican.Lawyer;postmaster atDanbury,Conn., 1835; member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives from Danbury, 1854, 1856; delegateto Republican National Convention from Connecticut,1856;Connecticutstate treasurer, 1857-58; member ofConnecticutstate senate 11th District, 1860.Member,Freemasons.Died in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,October16, 1893 (age88 years, 269days).Interment atWoosterCemetery, Danbury, Conn. | | David DeForest Wildman (1807-1852) — also known asDavid D. Wildman — of Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,August5, 1807.Member ofConnecticutstate house of representatives from Danbury, 1837-38.Died in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,May 31,1852 (age44 years, 300days).Interment atWoosterCemetery, Danbury, Conn. | | Ira R. Wildman (1850-1939) — of Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.Born in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,February3, 1850.Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidateforConnecticutstate house of representatives from Danbury, 1910.Member,GrandArmy of the Republic;OddFellows;Rotary.Died in Danbury,FairfieldCounty, Conn.,January31, 1939 (age88 years, 362days).Interment atWoosterCemetery, Danbury, Conn. | | Rounsevelle Wildman (1864-1901) — of California. Born in Batavia,GeneseeCounty, N.Y.,March19, 1864.U.S. Consul inSingapore, 1889-97; U.S. Consul General inHong Kong, 1897-1901, died in office 1901.En route from Hong Kong to San Francisco on theSS City of Rio deJaneiro, he and his family were among 135 whoperishedwhen the ship struck a reef indensefog, and quicklysank, inSanFrancisco Bay,February22, 1901 (age36 years, 340days); his remains werenotfound. | | Edwin Rounsevelle Wildman (1867-1932) — also known asEdwin Wildman — of Elmira,ChemungCounty, N.Y.; Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Corning,SteubenCounty, N.Y.,May 9,1867.Newspapereditor; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General inHong Kong, 1898-99;newspapercorrespondent;writer.Died, from aheartattack, in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,November3, 1932 (age65 years, 178days).Interment atOramel Cemetery, Oramel, Caneadea, N.Y.
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