title: Marshall Pinckney Wilder (politician)
text: # Marshall Pinckney Wilder (politician)
  
  Marshall Pickney Wilder (September 22, 1798 – December 16, 1886) was a Massachusetts merchant, amateur horticulturalist, and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, on the Massachusetts Governor's Council as a member and President of, the Massachusetts Senate.
  
  As a pomologist he was founder (1848) and longtime president of the American Pomological Society.
  
  