Wheaton, Frank – Wheeler, John Hill
Wheaton, Frank
soldier, was born May 8, 1833, in Providence, R. I. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, and was brevetted majorgeneral of volunteers for gallant and meritorious services, and received brevets in the regular army to the grade of major-general.
Wheaton, Henry
lawyer, diplomat, author, was born Nov. 27, 1785, in Providence. He was the author of History of the Progress of the Law of Nations; Elements of International Law; History of the Northmen; Reports of Cases in United States Supreme Court; Digest of Supreme Court Decisions from 1789 to 1820; and Life of William Pinkney in Sparks's American Biography. He died March 11, 1848, in Dorchester, Mass.
Wheaton, Horace
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1843 to 1847.
Wheaton, Laban
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1754 at Marshfield, Mass. He was a county judge of Massachusetts, and was a representative in congress from 1809 to 1817. He died March 23, 1846, in Norton, Mass.
Wheaton, Milton Alvord
lawyer, inventor, was born Nov. 14, 1830, in North Gage, N. Y. He taught school for a while near Sacramento, Cal., and in 1856 was admitted to the bar and settled in Suisun, Cal. He has attained success in the profession of law, particularly in land litigation. He is frequently called to different states to argue important patent cases; and during the last quarter of a century has frequently appeared in argument cases before the United States supreme court. Since 1865 he has lived near San Francisco, Cal., in which city he is a prominent figure.
Wheaton, Robert
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 5, 1826, in New York city. he was a skilful musician, and published several able and thoughtful articles in the North American Review, and other periodicals. Selections from his writings were published by his sister, Abby Wheaton, with a memoir in 1854. He died Oct. 9, 1851, in Providence, R. I.
Whedon, Daniel Denison
clergyman, journalist, author, was born March 20, 1808, in Onondaga, N. Y. He was a methodist clergyman, editor of The Methodist Quarterly Review in 1850-84, and the author of The Freedom of the Will; Commentary on the New Testament; Commentary on the Old Testament; Essays, Reviews and Discourses, and Statements: Theological and Critical. He died June 8, 1885, in Atlantic Highlands, N. J.
Wheeler, Andrew Carpenter
critic, author, was born July 4, 1835, in New York. He is a dramatic and musical critic of New York city, and the author of The Chronicles of Milwaukee; The Twins, a comedy; and The Primrose Path of Dalliance, a theatrical tale.
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide
educator, philologist, author, was born July 15, 1854, in Randolph, Mass. He was instructor in Brown university and in Harvard; and professor of comparative philology and Greek in Cornell college. He is the author of The Greek Noun Accents; Analogy, and the Scope of Its Application in Language; Introduction to the Study of History and Language; and other works.
Wheeler, Charles Gardiner
author, was born in 1855 in Peabody, Mass. He is a writer formerly of Winchendon, Mass., and later of Topsham, Maine. He is the author of Who Wrote It? a literary index, and Familiar Allusions, both begun by his uncle, and completed by him. The Course of Empire: Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the History of the World.
Wheeler, Charles Kennedy
lawyer, congressman, was born April 18, 1863, in Christian county, Ky. Since 1880 he has been engaged in the active practice of law in Paducah, Ky., and has been corporation counsel for the city for the years 1894 and 1895. He was democratic elector for the first congressional district of Kentucky in 1892, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Wheeler, Crosby Howard
missionary, author, was born in 1823 in Maine. He is a missionary to Turkey, and the author of Little Children in Eden; Letters from Eden; Ten Years on the Euphrates; Odds and Ends; and Grace Illustrated.
Wheeler, Daniel Hilton
clergyman, college president, author, was born Nov. 19, 1829, in Ithaca, N. Y. He is a methodist clergyman, president of Allegheny college, Meadville, Pa., in 1883-87, and the author of Brigandage in South Italy; By-Ways of Literature; and Our Industrial Utopia and Its Unhappy Citizens.
Wheeler, Dora
artist, was born March 12, 1858, in Jamaica, L. I. Though devoting herself mainly to decorative designing, she has also painted several pictures. Among these are a series of portraits of English and American authors, including Thomas Bailey Aldrich, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Charles Dudley Warner, John Burroughs, Austin Dobson and Walter Besant.
Wheeler, Edward Francis
clergyman, was born in 1862, in Grafton, Vt.
He attended the Dartmouth college; graduated from Bowdoin college in 1883; from the Hartford Theological seminary in 1889, and subsequently took a post-graduate course in that institution. In 1884- 85 he was home missionary in western Minnesota; has been pastor of the Grace Union church of North Wilbraham, Mass.; and is now pastor of the congregaonal church of the Redeemer, at St. Louis, Mo. He has been secretary and treasurer of the Missouri State association of Congregational Churches, and has contributed extensively to church literature.
Wheeler, Ezra
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1820 in Shenango county, N. Y. In 1852 he was elected to the legislature of Wisconsin, and in 1854 was elected to the office of county judge, holding the same for eight years. He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the thirty-eighth congress.
Wheeler, Frank W
ship-builder, congressman, was born March 2, 1853, in Chaumont, N. Y. He and his father were engaged extensively in ship-building at the bay cities in 1877, and the yard they established has grown to be the largest wood ship-building plant in the United States. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Wheeler, George Montague
soldier, civil engineer, was born Oct. 9, 1842, in Grafton, Mass. In 1869 he was sent to make a geographical reconnoissance in central Nevada, and in 1871 he took the field with a force of surveyors and scientists. His organization assumed the title of the Geographical survey of the territory of the United States west of the one hundredth meridian, of which he became superintending engineer.
Wheeler, Grattan H
state senator, congressman, was born in New York.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1831 to 1833; was a member of the state assembly from Steuben county for four years; and was one year a member of the state senate.
Wheeler, Hamilton K
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 5, 1848, in Ballston, N. Y. In 1884 he was elected to the state senate of Illinois from the sixteenth senatorial district, and on the organization of the senate he was assigned the chairmanship of the committee on judicial department. He was one of the one hundred and three who took an active part in the famous senatorial contest of Illinois, which resulted in the election of General Logan to the United States senate. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican.
Wheeler, Harrison H
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born March 22, 1839, in Lapeer county, Mich. In 1870 he was elected state senator for Bay and adjoining counties, and re-elected in 1872. After the session of the legislature in 1873 he moved to Ludington, Mich., and was appointed circuit judge in 1874 by Governor Bagley, and at the first election thereafter was elected to the same office without opposition. He was elected to the fifty-second congress.
Wheeler, Henry Nathan
educator, author, was born in 1850 in Massachusetts. He was formerly an instructor in mathematics at Harvard university and now engaged in educational publishing work in Boston. He is the author of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; The Elements of Logarithms; and Second Lessons in Arithmetic.
Wheeler, Hoyt H
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Aug. 30, 1833, in Chesterfield, N. H. He was a representative in the Vermont legislature in 1867 from Jamaica; a state senator in 1868 and 1869; and was a judge of the state supreme court from 1869 to 1877, when he was appointed United States district judge for the district of Vermont. He removed to Brattleboro in 1884.
Wheeler, John
merchant, congressman, was born in 1823 in Darby, Conn. He entered the mercantile business in New York city; subsequently engaged in hotel-keeping, which he followed at the time of his election and during his service as a member of congress. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1853 to 1857.
Wheeler, John Hill
public official, author, was born Aug. 6, 1806, in Murfreesboro, N. C. He entered the house of commons as a member from his native county, and served four years successively. He was appointed superintendent of the United States branch mint in 1836 at Charlotte, N. C., and in 1842 was elected treasurer of the state of North Carolina. In 1852 he was appointed minister resident to the Republic of Nicaragua. He was the author of the History of North Carolina; Legislative Manual of North Carolina; and Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina. He died Dec. 7, 1882, in Washington, D. C.