WHEELER, JOHN R.

WHEELER, BOYD, WILSON

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Date: 4/16/2013 at 08:57:06

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 819

WHEELER, JOHN R.--Farmer, section 34, P.O. Victor. Was born September 20, 1829, in Baltimore county, Maryland, where, after finishing his education, he worked on this father's farm till 1848, when he went to Pennsylvania and learned the carpenter trade and there worked till 1850. Then he went to Maryland, remaining till 1856, when he came to Iowa and engaged in farming in various places, and working at his trade till 1865, when he settled where he now lives, and owns forty acres of good land, he also owns a good threshing machine, having run one for eleven years. Mr. Wheeler was married September 16, 1851, in Pennsylvania, to Miss Ann Eliza Boyd, who was born there in October, 1831; from this union they have eight children: Mary (born December 1, 1852; now the wife of A. Wilson of Lincoln township), Wm. Henry (born May 1, 1855; died July 22, 1855), John Thomas (born April 22, 1858), Emma Jane (born March 15, 1860), Grace (born October 15, 1862), Charles (born September 16, 1865), Cora May (born February 25, 1867), Eva P. (born October 21, 1873).