ORANGE W. WHEATLEY
Orange W. Wheatley owns and occupies a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, in the northwest quarter of section 11, and the northeast quarter of section 10, Brighton township. He located on this farm in June, 1873. It is now in a good state of cultivation and well improved. It is admirably adapted for a stock farm, in which business Mr. Wheatley is engaged. He was born in the town of Hardwick, Caledonia county, Vermont, August 28, 1848, and is a son of J. A. Wheatley, a native of New Hampshire, and Charlotte (Skinner) Wheatley, a native of Vermont. Mr. Wheatley left his native State and went to Wisconsin, where he lived one year, then went to a place near Green Bay, and worked in the pineries and mills until 1873, at which date he removed to Cass county. His parents are now living in Marne. He was married March 20, 1873, to Miss Elsina Sheffier, a native of Wisconsin, and a daughter of Bartholomew Sheffier. They have four children...Wilbur O., Jessie A., John, Belle E., and Moses A.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 597.
