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Marshall Pinckney Wilder
Marshall Pinckney Wilder (September 19, 1859 – January 10, 1915) was an American actor, monologist, humorist and sketch artist who was one of the first persons with a disability (dwarfism) to become a celebrity on his own terms.
==Early life==
Marshall Pinckney Wilder (sometimes spelled Marshal) was born along the north shore of Seneca Lake at Geneva, New York 〔The Syracuse Herald January 11, 1915〕 the son of Dr. Louis de Valois Wilder and the former Mary A. Bostwick. He shared the same name as his great-uncle, a distinguished amateur pomologist and floriculturist, who help found the Boston Horticultural Society and American Pomological Society.〔The New York Times February 17, 1933 pg. 19〕〔History of Horticulture - Wilder, Marshall Pinckney 1798-1886 (Ohio State University)〕 His father was an 1843 graduate of the Geneva Medical College and for a number of years an attending physician at Flower Hospital at the New York Medical College and a member of the New York Homeopathic Medical Society.〔Medical record, Volume 79 edited by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman – 1911 pg. 309〕
While still a boy, Wilder’s family moved to Rochester where he became popular for his talent as a storyteller and apparent gift as a clairvoyant. It was also at Rochester that Wilder received his early inspiration for a later vocation after attending a public reading at Corinthian Hall. In his youth he worked as a pin-boy at a bowling alley and storeroom clerk for a summer resort,〔Appleton Post Crescent January 23, 1923 pg. 4〕 before moving to New York City around the age of twenty where found employment as a file boy with a commercial firm. Before a while Wilder starting augmenting his income by giving humorous monologues for 50 cents a performance.〔The Syracuse Herald January 11, 1915 pg. 7〕
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