sentences:  He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and was a graduate of Class of 1905.He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers on June 13, 1905.Wilby was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant on June 7, 1907, and in September of the same year, he was ordered to the Washington, D.C., where he attended the Engineer School at Washington Barracks (now Fort Lesley J. McNair).