Ouray County CO Archives Biographies.....Wheeler, L.S. 1843 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Born and reared on a farm in Pennsylvania, and exchanging the highly
cultivated and well developed agricultural industry of that great state in the
full flush of his young and vigorous manhood for the hard conditions and
unsettled state but more promising opportunities of the industry in the farther
west, and accepting the lot he found here with a manliness and self-reliance
which has made the most of them, L. S. Wheeler, of Ridgeway, has not been a
loser by the change and the state of Colorado has been largely the gainer.  His
life began in 1843, and he is the son of S.A. and Clarissa (Hale) Wheeler, who
were also natives of Pennsylvania.  He grew to manhood on his father’s farm and
expected to devote his energies through life to the vocation of his ancestors
for many generations.  But the West called him to her open fields and more
inspiring chances before he reached the prime of life and became too well
established in his early surroundings to leave them without too keen a pang.  In
1880, when he was about thirty-seven years of age, he came to Colorado and,
locating at Gunnison, engaged in mining.  Three years later he moved to
Silverton, where he discovered some of the valuable properties which have been
yielding handsomely since then, and in some of which he is still interested.  He
also has holdings of great worth at Eureka which he still works, although he
maintains his residence at Ridgeway, and takes an interest in farming and
raising stock as a side issue.  He was married at Ouray in 1889, to Mrs. Jennie
Masenia, who is, like himself, a native of Pennsylvania but has been for many
years a resident of this state. Mr. Wheeler has been an industrious developer of
his mining properties, and given a stimulus to the business wherever he has
worked.  He has also shown a good citizen’s active and intelligent interest in
the general welfare of his home locality, and zealously supported every
undertaking for its advancement.  For years he has been an earnest and loyal
member of the Masonic fraternity, entering into the spirit of its teachings and
living its principles in his daily life.  No citizen of Ouray county is more
worthy of public esteem or has it in larger measure. 

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

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