Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Wheeler, Harold H. 1871 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

HAROLD H. WHEELER.

    Prominent among the energetic and capable young men of Lake county is
numbered Harold H. Wheeler, who is now clerk of the circuit court and a resident
of Crown Point. This is his native city, his birth having occurred on the 28th
of December, 1871. He is the great-grandson of Solon Robinson, who was the first
county clerk of Lake county and was the founder of Crown Point. He became one of
the very earliest settlers of this portion of the state, locating here when much
of the land was still in its primitive condition, when the forests were uncut,
the prairies uncultivated.

    John J. Wheeler, the father of our subject, is represented elsewhere in this
work. In his family were four children, of whom Harold H. Wheeler is the eldest
son. The latter was educated in the high school of Crown Point and immediately
after leaving school he accepted the position of deputy clerk under George I.
Maillet, tinder whom he served for three years. He was then deputy clerk for
George M. Eder for eight years and at the end of that time was nominated without
opposition at the Republican primaries for the position of clerk of the circuit
court, in 1900. His election followed and he discharged the duties so acceptably
that in 1902 he was re-nominated, and he now has five years to serve. His second
term began in January, 1904. His connection with the office has been of long
duration, so that he is thoroughly familiar with the business transactions
therein and he has instituted many reforms and improvements, which have been of
value in the system of conducting the work of the office of the clerk of the
circuit court.

    Mr. Wheeler is identified with several fraternal organizations. He belongs
to the Independent Order of Foresters, the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, the Knights of Pythias fraternity and is a prominent Mason, always true
and loyal to the teachings of the craft. He belongs to the blue lodge, chapter,
council and commandery, also to the lodge of Perfection of the Rose Croix and
has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is likewise
identified with the Mystic Shrine, and is very active in the work of the
fraternity, while in his life he exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft.

    In 1891 he was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Ward, a daughter of Henry
R. Ward, and they have one son, John Ward Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler has a very wide
acquaintance throughout the county in which his entire life has been passed, and
his election to office was a tribute to his personal worth as well as to his
business ability.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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