Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Wheeler, Samuel N. 1857 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     The legal profession, although laying its votaries under tribute for

continuous and arduous labor to win success, and often requiring sleepless

nights after toilsome days in its exactions, yet wins many of the best minds of

the country to its fields of contest and loses none of its attractions to the

ambitious because of the hard conditions of the service.  Among the men who

honor it and are distinguished in it, western Colorado has no more welcome or

inspiring example than Samuel  N. Wheeler, of Grand Junction, one of the leading

attorneys of Mesa county, and one of its best and most representative citizens,

who is prominent and successful in business as well as in professional life. 

Mr. Wheeler is a native of Clarke county, Virginia, born in 1857, and the son of

Jackson and Jane (Triplett) Wheeler, who were also natives of the Old Dominion

and lived there until after the Civil war, when they moved to Missouri, where

the father bought a farm and on it they reared their family of eight children,

five of whom are living.  The father was a soldier in the Confederate army

during the war in the command of “Stonewall” Jackson.  His son Samuel

accompanied the family to Missouri from his native state in 1863, and grew to

manhood on the paternal homestead.  He was educated in the district schools and

at the Warrensburg Normal School, paying for his education by teaching school. 

He studied law under the direction of a well known Warrensburg attorney and

counselor, and in 1882 was admitted to practice in the Missouri courts, after

which he took a course of lectures at the University of Virginia.  Going to New

Orleans in 1884, he there taught a select school for eighteen months.  In 1886

he began the practice of his profession at Odessa, Missouri, but in the

following year moved to southwestern Kansas, and from there in 1890 came to this

state and located at Grand Junction.  During the next five years he was

associated in practice with Judge W.S. Sullivan, and since the dissolution of

the partnership with him has been alone.  In his practice he has been eminently

successful, rising to the first rank in this section and making a reputation

throughout a much larger scope of country as a learned counselor, a skillful

attorney and a forcible and eloquent advocate.  Both in the elementary

principles of the law and in its interpretations by the courts he is well

versed, and his intellectual forces are always marshalled and ready for duty on

call. But although the law is a jealous mistress and seldom admits a divided

devotion from her worshippers, he finds time to give attention to an extensive

real estate business and the cultivation of several fine fruit farms near Fruita

in Mesa county. He is also attorney for the Grand Valley National Bank of Grand

Junction and the Colorado Midland Railroad at that city.  In politics he is an

ardent Democrat, and, although averse to public office, served two years as city

attorney.  In the fall of 1898 he was a candidate for the nomination for

district judge in his district, but for personal reasons he withdrew from the

race before the nominating convention met.  The best interests of the community

receive his support at all times, and in all commendable phases of its social,

public and commercial life he is prominent, helpful and stimulating.  He belongs

to Mesa Lodge, No. 58, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has filled all its

official chairs.  In 1888 he married with Miss Frances Hereford, of Missouri. 

They have three children, Rowena, Samuel N., Jr., and Virginia. 

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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