WHEELER, W.H.

WHEELER, MARKEY, LOVE

Posted By: Marilyn Norris Holmes
Date: 4/16/2013 at 09:23:40

The 1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Warren Township

Page 820

WHEELER, W.H.--Farmer and stock-raiser, section 10, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born April 14, 1820, in Baltimore county, Maryland, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming till 1855, when he came to Iowa and located where he now lives, and owns eight hundred and fifteen acres of improved land, including some timber, having a large brick residence on the same with good orchard adjoining, also has farm well stocked. He was married December 22, 1846, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Miss Nancy Markey a resident and native of same county, aged twenty-six; children as follows are the result of this union: Elizabeth (born September 17, 1847; now the wife of Wm. Love in Nebraska), John R. (born October 24, 1849), Jacob S. (born January 19, 1852), Clara F. (born July 19, 1854), Lewis P. (born October 29, 1856), Wm. F. (born November 8, 1858), Theodore G. (born April 8, 1861), Charles M. (born March 20, 1863), and Ella G. (born September 19, 1866).