Wheeler, Daniel 1827 – 1915

WHEELER, DYSART, MARKHAM

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:26

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Dec. 24, 1915 P-5 C-5

Mr. Dan Wheeler passed away Wednesday afternoon at the home of his son Gus on the south side. Mr. Wheeler was one of the county’s oldest residents, and lived to be 89 years old. The funeral services will be held on Friday.

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Dec. 31, 1915 P-5 C-5

Daniel Wheeler was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., Jan. 6, 1827, and died at the home of his son, D. A. Wheeler, on the 22nd day of Dec. 1915, after a brief illness of less than two days. When a small boy, he came to Janesville, Rock Co., Wis., and while there was engaged in the stage business between Janesville and Beloit till the spring of 1851, when he came to Winneshiek County, Iowa, and made entry on a piece of land where Burr Oak now stands, and returned the same fall to Janesville where he was united in marriage to Miss Anna G. Dysart in the spring of 1855, coming west that same spring, locating at Decorah, Iowa, and engaged in teaming between Decorah and McGregor for a number of years. He built the first hotel in Decorah, about the time the land office opened there.
He was the father of seven children, two daughters and five sons, four of whom survive, three dying in infancy. His wife preceded him in death on November 15, 1913.
Those left to mourn his death are Moretta L. Markham, Augustus C. Wheeler and Daniel A. Wheeler, all of Cresco, and James G. Wheeler, of Turtle River, Minn., 15 grand-children and 12 great-grand-children.
In the spring of 1859, he moved to Howard County to a small farm in New Oregon Twp. where he lived till the fall of 1896 when he moved to Cresco where he lived till about four years ago when he and his wife went to stay with their daughter. Since the death of his wife, he has maintained no home but has stayed with his children.
The funeral was held at his old home on the south side, Reverend Kirwin, of the M. E. church, officiating, with interment in New Oregon Cemetery.

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