Herbert H. Wildman has spent all his life in the village of Wolcottville, began his career there as a merchant but for ever [sic] thirty-five years has been identified with banking, and is now president and principal owner of the Wildman State Bank.
He was born at Wolcottville, April 5, 1860, son of Levi L. and Louisa M. (Taylor) Wildman. His father was a native of Massachusetts. Herbert H. Wildman attended the common and high schools of Wolcottville, and his first business venture was as restaurant proprietor. Later he was in the general merchandise business at Wolcottville until he and his father started a private bank. In 1884 they reorganized, with his father as president and Herbert H. as cashier. Levi Wildman died in 1893, and was succeeded in the presidency of the bank by Herbert Wildman. In 1917 the bank was organized under a state a state charter as the Wildman State Bank, with Herbert H. Wildman, president, Lee S. Jennings, vice president, and G. H. Weaver, cashier. The only change in officers at the present time is that George C. Morgan is cashier. The other directors are Harry E. Roy, V. D. Weaver and Clyde A. Walb.
Mr. Wildman married at the age of eighteen, Minnie C. Parks. They had four children: Viola W. is a high school graduate, finished her education in the Fort Wayne College, and is the widow of Charles S. Smith. Vida, a graduate of high school, is the wife of Clyde A. Walb of LaGrange. Leon L. after leaving high school took the full course at Wabash College and two years in John Hopkins University at Baltimore, and is now credit man for the Bowser Company at Toronto, Canada. The fourth child, Wilman, is deceased.
Mr. Wildman is a member of the Baptist Church, served a number of years as its chorister, and all his children are musicians. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with the Lodge and Chapter of Masons at LaGrange, and in politics is a republican.
Herbert H. Wildman, History of Northeast Indiana, © 1884, Vol. 2, Pg. 6-7.