C. G. Wheeland (b. 1823)

WHEELAND, LACKEY

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 6/22/2005 at 14:59:49

Wheeland, C. G., farmer and stock raiser, Section 8; PO Brush Creek; born in Burlington, Vermont in 1823; went to Canada in 1826; returned to St. Albans, Vermont, 1845, thence to Troy, New York, 1846 and returned to St. Albans in 1851; he located in this county in 1855. Married Miss Charity Lackey in 1844; she was born Franklin Co., Vermont in 1821; four children --- Charles J., born June 3, 1847; Grier W., Feb. 10, 1852; Emma L. and Edna L (twins), April 22, 1863. He is a Nationalist; Charles J., Republican; Grier W., Democrat. Mr. W has been School Director and Trustee several terms. (G. W. is a graduate of Rush Medical College and has been practicing medicine the last three years at Ashton, Clayton Co., Iowa) They have been engaged for the past eight years, in raising the best grades of stock, for which their farm is peculiarly well adapted; they have thorough bred short horns, Betty Doon, Frantic Booth, Bright Eyes, the Seventh Smuggler and Monarch the Third now on the farm; they have sold $10,000 worth of butter of their creamery since 1865; sold 2,100 lbs. last year; they are erecting a new creamery of 300 cows capacity; they own 400 acres of land all under three-wire barb fence, worth $40 per acre.

Page 622-623, 1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa
Putnam township