Death
Wilbur died of heart disease at his Stanford home on June 26, 1949. He is buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, California. Herbert Hoover eulogized him as "my devoted friend and constant friend since boyhood." He said of Wilbur: "During all his years, including his later chancellorship of Stanford, he has given a multitude of services to the people. Public health and education have been enriched over all these years from his sane statesmanship and rugged intellectual honesty. America is a better place for his having lived in it."
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