WILBUR, RAY LYMAN (I875— ), American educa tionist, was born at Boonesboro, Ia., on April 13, 1875. He graduated at Stanford university in 1896, proceeding thence to Cooper Medical college, San Francisco, and later continued his studies at London, Frankfurt and Munich. He began his teach ing at Stanford in 1900, becoming professor of medicine in 1909 and dean of the medical school in 1911. In 1915 he was appointed
president. He was chief of the division of conservation of the U.S. Food Commission, and a member of the California State Council of Defence 1917. On March 4, 1929, he became secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Hoover.