When a meeting was called for the purpose of providing the village with a name, the Wilmot Proviso" being at that time a mooted subject, Mr. Wilbur moved by way of a joke that the settlement be christened "Wilmot," which having been submitted to the meeting, the joke was ratified as an earnest motion, and the place so nominated.

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[Source: Lyman. City of Kenosha and Kenosha County, Wisconsin, 1916, p. 324.]