WHEELER, Dr. William Clark, M.D.

WHEELER, CARNETT MCDOUGAL

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/16/2014 at 12:53:12

Biography ~ Dr. William Clark Wheeler, M.D.

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 598:

W. C. WHEELER, M.D., has practiced his profession in Davis City since November 11, 1882, and has practiced in Decatur Count, Indiana, in 1827. His father, ELNATHAN WHEEER, died when his son was nine years old, and when he was fourteen years old his mother died. He was thus thrown upon his own resources at an age when a young most requires the parental care. Very early in life he contemplated the study of medicine, and read upon that subject whatever books he could obtain. In 1853 he entered the office of Dr. CAVENDER at Courtland, Indiana, where he remained five years, and the last two years of the time was associated with his preceptor in practice. In 1862 he entered the army as a private in the Sixty-seventh Indiana Infantry, Company E. As he had already practiced medicine several years he was not allowed to serve in the ranks but was at once transferred the medical department of the army, in hospital duty. He served as field Surgeon of his regiment in most of the battles in which the Sixty-seventh was engaged, including the two battles of Munfordville, Kentucky, at the repulse of SHERMAN on the Yazoo River, at Arkansas Post, and the Vicksburg campaign of General GRANT. He accompanied his regiment on the Red River camping as far as Alexandria, when he was sent back with the sick and wounded. He was also with his regiment as Surgeon at the siege and capture of Forts Gaines and Hudson, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, and was in the same capacity at the siege and capture of Fort Blakely. Previous to the war Dr. WHEELER had attended two courses of lectures at the Medical College in Cincinnati. After the war closed he resumed his practice in Indiana. He has been a member of the Decatur County Medical Society for many years. He has an extensive practice, and in numbered among the most successful physicians of Decatur County. The doctor has been twice married. His first wife was SARAH CARNETT, who died in this county. His present wife was MARY MCDOUGAL of Decatur County. The doctor has five sons and four daughters.

NOTE: Dr. Wheeler died August 9, 1905, Leon IA. Mary (McDougal) Wheeler died in 1941. They were interred at Leon Cemetery, Leon IA.

Transcribed by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historial Society Musuem, January of 2014

Note by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2014