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WILCOX, DAVID, was nearly 58 years of age at the time of his death. He was born in Providence, R. I., in September, 1820, and in 1854 he removed from Cortland county, N. Y., to the city of Janesville, Wis. He soon thereafter became one of the proprietors of the Janesville Daily Gazette, and in 1870 he removed to Milwaukee, where he became one of the stockholders of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and its business manager. Disposing of his interest in the Sentinel in 1872, he removed to Quincy in January, 1874, having purchased the Quincy Whig, of which paper he was proprietor at the time of his death, May 19, 1878, having been engaged in the publishing business almost continuously for a period of about twenty years.

From early manhood until a short time before his death, Mr. Wilcox had been constantly employed in active business pursuits. He was a man of thorough business qualifications, and was possessed of unusual energy and executive force. He never sought public position, but nevertheless always manifested an active interest in all public affairs, both general and local.

In manner he was genial, yet frank and outspoken, leaving no one in doubt as to his views upon any subject whatsoever. He was a man of the strictest integrity in all his dealings, and he was actuated by none but the most honorable motives in all his relations with men. He possessed a generous and sympathetic nature, and was a man of warm personal attachments, and of unswerving fidelity to his friends.