Charles (1823-1886) was born in Sheffield, the son of Ebenezer Wild (1795-1871) and his wife, Harriet.  Ebenezer was from Rotherham, but by 1828 was a pen knife manufacturer, back of Radford Street.  He later partnered his brother, Benjamin (1789-1840), a pearl scale cutter, in Scotland Street, until 1837.  Benjamin relinquished business in 1839 and he died on 13 April 1840, aged 50.  In the Census (1841), Ebenezer and his wife, Harriet, were living at Broad Lane.  In July 1843, son Charles married Harriet Warburton.  On 4 September, Ebenezer and Harriet and Charles and Harriet disembarked at New York.  Ebenezer and Harriet settled in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Ebenezer made spring knives marked ‘E. Wild & Sons.  Approved Cutlery’.  He died at East Brooklyn, Long Island, on 10 December 1871, aged 74;  Harriet died on 16 January 1872, aged 76.

Charles and Harriet had a son, William Ebenezer Wild (1844-1927), who was born in America.  However, by the end of the 1840s, the family had returned to Sheffield.  Charles was a spring knife manufacturer in Watery Lane, Netherthorpe, and later at Broomhall Street.  He employed six men in 1851; nine in 1861; and five a decade later.  Charles Wild, Parker’s Road, died on 14 January 1886, aged 63.  He was buried in the unconsecrated section of the General Cemetery.  He left £453.  His eldest son, William Ebenezer, became an agricultural agent, but was insolvent in 1896.  A younger son, Arthur Edward (1860-1932), became a pen and pocket knife cutler at Wheeldon Lane, Wheeldon Street.  By 1900, William and Arthur had formed Wild Bros at Wheeldon Lane, but it was out of business by 1910.