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Wheeler, Orlando Belina

civil engineer, was born Nov. 29, 1835, in Lodi, Mich. Since 1884 he has been United States assistant engineer under the Missouri river commission. His writings, principally reports, have appeared in the annual volumes of the chief of engineers of the United States army, and of the superintendent of the United States naval observatory.

WHEELER, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS, librarian, author, was born Nov. 14, 1833, in Leicester, Mass. He was a librarian of Boston who, besides editing an edition of webster's Dictionary, was the author of Noted Names of Fiction; Familiar Allusions; and Who Wrote It? a literary index. He died Oct. 28, 1874, in Roxbury.