Ouray County CO Archives Biographies.....Wheeler, L.S. 1843 - ? ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Crook jlcrook@rof.net February 25, 2006, 8:00 pm 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/ouray/bios/wheeler186gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb