Almanzo Wilder

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Almanzo James Wilder (February 13, 1857-October 23, 1949) was the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the father of Rose Wilder Lane, both well-known writers.

Early life

Almanzo James Wilder was born outside Wilder Homestead outside Malone, New York, as the fifth of six children born to farmers James Mason (1813-1989) and Angelina Albina (1821–1905). Laura Ann (1844–1899), Royal Gould (1847-1959), Eliza Jane (1850–1925), Perley Maria (1869–1934), and Perley Day Wilder (1869-1934). Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote a book called Farmer Boy about Wilder's childhood in upstate New York; she would later become a central figure in the Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years and In The First Four Years respectively, a recurring character. He appears in chapter 28 (Moving Day') of By the Shores of Silver Lake for a brief period. Almanzo is described as a self-starting, hardworking man who adores horses and farming, as well as a skilled carpenter and woodworker.

Boy, a farmer, reminisces about Wilder's childhood, beginning in 1866 when he was eight years old. Among other things, he starts school (not needed at home for farm work), learns to drive a team of oxen, attends a county fair, and relishs the town's Mid-July centennial celebration. He also learns how to cope with being ruled over by his older siblings, particularly Eliza Jane, who would later become a tutor for his future wife.

Farmer Boy, by the time of publication, was the second book in the Little House series published. It was published in 1933 and it was followed by Little House on the Prairie in 1935. With the introduction of the recently illustrated 1953 edition, the original order of publication was altered by the publisher Harper.

In 1870, the Wilder family left Burke due to crop failures. The couple moved west and established a farm in Spring Valley, Minnesota. Wilder and his older brother Royal, as well as sister Eliza Jane, migrated to the Dakota Territory in 1879, establishing their roots near what would later become De Smet, South Dakota. Wilder reminisces of planting acres of seed wheat, which he had grown on rented land in Marshall, Minnesota, the previous summer. Laura Ingalls was first introduced in De Smet. The Ingalls family was one of the first settlers in the area before the town was officially established. When Charles Ingalls took up railroad work in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, they moved to the Dakota Territory.

In The Long Winter, Ingalls wrote about Wilder's person. Wilder, Ed "Cap" Garland, and his future wife's chum, De Smet's pioneers of starvation suffered during the hard winter of 1881, including the Ingalls family. Wilder was 23 and Garland 16 when they crossed one of the region's deadliest winters, 1880-1981, they rode 12 miles (19 km) in search of wheat, which a farmer had allegedly grown to De Smet's southwest. They were able to locate the farmer and buy. They hauled 60 bushels of wheat on sleds that occasionally broke through the snow into slough grass, barely making it back to De Smet before a four-day blizzard struck the area.

When Wilder was 25 years old and Ingalls was 15, the two were convicted. Wilder would ride Ingalls back and forth between De Smet and a new settlement 12 miles (19 kilometers) outside town, where she was teaching classes and boarding. They would go for long buggy rides as spring came, according to then. Wilder and Ingalls married in De Smet by Reverend Edward Brown on August 25, 1885. They listened to Wilder's claims and started their own small farming business. Rose, the Wilders' granddaughter, was born on December 5, 1886. Rose Wilder Lane, a respected political writer and scholar, became known as the author of Rose Wilder Lane later in life.

The Wilders' first years of marriage, as shown in The First Four Years, were plagued by bad weather, sickness, and heavy debt. Wilder and his wife were both stricken with diphtheria in the spring of 1888. Even though they both survived, Wilder suffered from one of the illness's most common, late signs, neuritis. His legs were temporarily paralyzed, and even after the paralysis had been cured, he needed a cane to walk. The Wilders' decline into debt and hunger was exacerbated by his inability to do the hard physical work associated with wheat farming in South Dakota.

The Wilders' year 1889 was the turning point for the Wilders. The couple had a boy in early August. When the child died of "convulsions" two weeks later, he was unidentified. Laura Wilder never told her of her death, and the couple did not have any more children. The family lost their house to a fire and their crops to drought in the same month. "It took seven years of complete crop failure, with work, weather, and illness that wrecked his family's life, as well as interest rates on food borrowed to buy food to deter us from the land," Wilder's daughter said.

The Wilder family immigrated to Spring Valley, Minnesota, in 1890, to remain on their farm with his parents. The weary family was in need of rest and recuperation at this time. The family moved westward, Florida, this time to Westville, Florida, between 1891 and 1892. Wilder's supporters hoped that a warmer climate would help him regain his energy. In the end, although the warmer weather did help him recover, his wife did not like the hot weather or the backwoods natives' customs. They returned to De Smet in 1892 and rented a small house in town. The Wilders lived in De Smet from 1892 to 1894, with the Ingalls family nearby. Wilder discovered work as a carpenter and day laborer while his wife was working as a seamstress in a dressmaker's store. They followed frugality and cautiously saved money together.

The Wilders departed De Smet, Missouri, by covered wagon, attracted by brochures of "The Land of the Big Red Apple" and tales of a local man who had traveled to Missouri to see the area for himself. They arrived near Mansfield, Missouri, and Wilder paid $40 down on 40 acres (16.2 ha) of hilly, rocky undeveloped land that his wife aptly identified as "Rocky Ridge Farm." The farm will be the couple's last home. Wilder built her wife what she later referred to as her dream house: a small, five-foot (1.52 m) frame in which he custom-built kitchen cabinets to fit her tiny, five-foot (1.52 m) frame.

Rocky Ridge Farm was eventually expanded to about 200 acres (80.9 ha) and became a fruit and vegetable farm. Wilder's lifetime passion of Morgan horses was indulged, as well as a herd of cows and goats. The Wilders took a more diversified approach to farming that was appropriate to the Ozarks' climate after learning a painful lesson by concentrating on wheat farming in South Dakota. Almanzo Wilder lived out the remainder of his life on his farm, and both he and his wife were active in many community and church activities during their time in Missouri.

Although royalties from the Little House books aided the Wilders, their daughter helped them out until the 1930s. Later on, their Rocky Ridge efforts in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as the book royalties, gave them a decent enough income to ensure they had a financial stability that they had not experienced before their marriages. Wilder's wife, when they first married, helped with their income by taking in occasional boarders, writing columns for a rural newspaper, and serving as Treasurer/Loan Officer for a Farm Loan Association. Their daughter lived with the Wilders on the farm for many years, seeing that electricity and other modern conveniences were brought to the area, as well as building an English-style stone cottage for them, and then taking over the farm house for about ten years.

Wilder learned to drive an automobile, which greatly improved their ability to get out of the yard. They went on several long auto trips, including to California and the Pacific Northwest, and then stopped several times to visit the Ingalls family in South Dakota, which was located in California. As their daughter returned to Connecticut in 1937, they immediately returned to their beloved farm house, later selling the stone cottage on the eastern land.

Wilder spent his remaining years tending his tiny vegetable and flower gardens, indulging his lifetime obsession with woodworking and carpentry, as well as tending his goats. He assisted his wife in greeting the carloads of Little House followers who arrived on a regular basis at Rocky Ridge Farm.

After suffering two heart attacks, Wilder died on October 23, 1949, at the age of 92. Laura Ingalls Wilder died eight years ago on February 10, 1957, on February 10, 1957. Rose Wilder Lane's daughter lived until 1968. Both three children are buried in Mansfield, and many of Wilder's possessions and handiwork can be seen today at Rocky Ridge Farm, as well as the Malone, New York, and Spring Valley, Minnesota, sites. The Laura Ingalls Wilder/Rose Wilder Lane Museum on the Rocky Ridge Farm today is named as the Laura Ingalls Wilder Farm.

Almanzo Wilder's account indicates that he was a quiet, stoic man, reflecting the time and culture in which he lived. Among his family and friends' written recollections, his love of farming, horses, and rural life is well documented.

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