Class of 1905

Wilbur Adams was born on October 23, 1884 in Georgetown, Delaware, the son of William and Sarah Adams. He graduated from Georgetown High School and began his college career at Delaware College in Newark, but in 1902 he joined the class of 1905 at Dickinson College. He was a member of the Belles Lettres Society and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity; however, he withdrew in 1904 to attend law school at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated in 1907.

Returning to Georgetown, Adams took his bar examination and eventually opened law offices in Wilmington. He later embarked upon a political career as well. A Democrat in a mostly Republican state, in 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for state Attorney General. Adams had more luck in 1932 as a candidate for a seat in the Seventy-third United States Congress. The only Democrat elected in a state-wide race, he won by a margin of only 2,857 votes. He served his term but was not a candidate for re-election in 1934, instead running in the election for a United States Senate seat, again unsuccessfully.

After the loss he resumed the practice of law, this time in his hometown of Georgetown, in 1934. He was also the acting postmaster for the town in 1937. Wilbur Louis Adams died in Lewes, Delaware on December 4, 1937 at the age of 53.

Image Citation: Dickinson Alumnus vol. 10, no. 2 (December 1932): 13.

Abram Bosler was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on September 5, 1884, the son of George Morris Bosler. In 1901, he graduated from the Dickinson Preparatory School, and attended the local Dickinson College as a member of the class of 1905. During his time at the college, Bosler was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and took the science course. He graduated with his class in the early summer of 1905.

After a few months in Wyoming with the family cattle business, he returned to succeed his father as director of the Carlisle Deposit Bank and eventually became its president. He was also involved with the Fidelity and Trust Company of Baltimore. Bosler also served as president of the Carlisle Shoe Company until his retirement in 1929. As a member of perhaps the leading family in Carlisle, he followed extensive civic activities including membership on the board of the Carlisle Hospital and of the Carlisle Country Club. He also served on the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College from 1914 until 1930. He was a Republican and an elected member and president of the city council. He was an active Mason and a member of the St. John's Episcopal Church in Carlisle.