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Wheaton, Robert – Wheelock, Eleazar

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.

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, 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, 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, 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.

Wheelock, Eleazar

founder and first president of Dartmouth college, was born April 22, 1711, in Windham, Conn.

He died April 24, 1779.

WHEELOCK, GEORGE ALEXANDER, lawyer, naturalist, was born Jan. 21, 1816, in Winchester, N. H. For twenty-five years he has been chairman of the school board of Keene, N. H.; and served two years in the state legislature. For many years he was president of Ashuelot National bank; and is commissioner and donor of Wheelock Park.