Harrison-Crawford-Fremont County IA Archives Biographies.....Wheeler, J R 
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Source: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth; 1882
Author: Western Publishing Company

J. R. Wheeler, dealer in lumber and coal, was born in N. Y. in 1834; removed to
Eau Claire, Wis., in 1854, and engaged in the lumber business. In 1861 he
enlisted in the 16th Wis. Inft.; was wounded in the face by a bullet at Shiloh;
carries two gun-shot wounds in his legs, and received injuries at Atlanta; was
discharged in April, 1865; returned to Wis. and engaged in shipping lumber, and
in Nov., 1866, established lumber yards at Denison and Woodbine, and the next
year established a yard at Dunlap. He sold the first lumber sold in Crawford and
Harrison counties. He established a yard at Blair, Neb., in 1868. He has been a
member of the city council of Dunlap for several years. In 1875 he was married
in Fremont county, Ia., to N. E. Tyler, and has one child, a son.


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From Harrison County Chapter, Dunlap Biographies.

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