Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Wheeler, L. H. 1841 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  L. H. WHEELER, farmer, P. O. Morea. This gentleman, who is recognized as a
good farmer, was born June 27, 1841, in Rutland County, Vt.; his father, Leonard
Wheeler, also a farmer, was born March 2, 1804, in New Hampshire; he married
Elizabeth Wetmore, who was the mother of eight children; they left Vermont in
1843, and on their route to this county they came mostly by water, then the best
way of traveling. They first went to Erie, N. Y., then via Erie Canal to
Buffalo, thence on the lake to Cleveland, from there by canal to La Fayette, and
then down the Wabash River on a steamboat to Bristol, landing opposite
Palestine, in this county, where our subject was educated, and afterward went to
the war, enlisting February 11, 1865, in the One Hundred and Fifty-second
Illinois Infantry Volunteers, Company H; served till close of war; was mustered
out at Memphis, Tenn. He was joined in matrimony, February 28, 1867, to Miss
Sarah A. Crews, born October 25, 1856, daughter of W. J. Crews, and mother of
Elizabeth A., born October 21, 1868; Fannie L., born April 29, 1874, and Chauncy
Crews, born September 8, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler are members of the.
Methodist Episcopal Church; he is a strong advocate of the temperance cause, in
which he sets a good and worthy example; is a Republican in politics. Has a
splendid farm of 200 acres with good buildings; to the cultivation of his land
he gives a great deal of attention, with marked success.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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