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.