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William Henry Harrison Wilcox of New York United States was born on February 24, 1839 in Canajoharie, and died at age 77 years old on September 6, 1916 in Newark, NJ. William Wilcox was buried at Fairmount Cemetery in Newark, Essex County.

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William Henry Harrison Wilcox was born to Gertrude (Anna G.) Eacker and Lester Wilcox on Feb. 24, 1839 in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, NY. He also is a direct descendant of Capt. George Herkimer of the Revolutionary War. He fought for the 10th NY Infantry during the Civil War, rising to the rank of Captain. He was captured at Elk Run, Virginia on October 13, 1863 and was taken to Libby Prison a Confederate prison for captured Union officers in Richmond, Va. He was part of a spectacular escape led by Colonel Thomas E. Rose (77th Penna. Vols.) on February 9 1864, where 109 officers tunneled their way out from the building under a vacant lot to the east. The only tools they had to use in the long tunnel digging were an old pocket knife, some chisels, a piece of rope, a rubber cloth and a wooden spittoon. He was recaptured 3 days later. He survived the war and married Emily Clark in October 1868. They had 5 children together: Harry Lester (born Aug 4, 1869), Herder Clark (Aug. 11, 1870), Percy Chapel (July 7, 1872), Mary Gertrude (June 7, 1876) and Edna Isabel (July 2, 1878). His wife, Emily, died in 1878. Wilcox married his second wife, Martha Price, on October 5, 1880 in New York City. Together, they had three children, Jessie Garfield Wilcox (born Oct. 21, 1881), Mabel Francis Colborn (born Aug. 23, 1883) and Foster B. Wilcox (born Oct. 28, 1886). For forty-five years Wilcox served in the registry department of the New York Post Office, resigning in 1915 on account of ill health. He died in Newark, NJ on Sept. 6, 1916 and is buried in Fairmount Cemetery with his wife.

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