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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  WILLIAM WHEATLEY, retired farmer and capitalist of Ellsworth, has been an

actual resident of Nobles county only eight years, but he was an early settler

of Midland township, Lyon county, Iowa, just over the line from Nobles county.



  Mr. Wheatley is an Englishman by birth and spent his early days in that

country. He was born May 21, 1847, the son of Charles and Mary (Middlewood)

Wheatley, and is the next oldest of eight living children. The living brothers

and sisters are: George, who is sheriff of Lyon county, Iowa; Charles and M. W.,

Lyon county farmers; Mrs. Joseph Bramley, of Little Rock, Iowa; Mrs. E. Walker,

of St. Croix Falls, Wis.; Mrs. M. L. Counsell, of England; Mrs. E. F. Lambert,

of Scotland. The father of our subject and of these children died in England in

the fall of 1876, aged 52 years. His wife was born in England, but came to the

United States when a child. She returned to her native land at the age of

nineteen years and was there married to Mr. Wheatley. She remained in England

until a few years after her husband's death, then took up her residence in the

United States, lived here a few years, and then returned to England, where she

died in 1896, aged 72 years.



  William Wheatley was raised and educated in England, and after reaching

manhood engaged in the wholesale mercantile business in Manchester. He came to

the United States in April, 1884, and located on a farm in Lyon county, Iowa.

His decision to come to the new world was made through the representations of an

uncle, Geo. Middlewood. The latter had come to the United States when a boy and

had accumulated considerable wealth in lands and stocks, having been engaged in

the malting and brewing business in Cincinnati. To each one of the Wheatley

children—eight in all—he gave a farm in Lyon county, Iowa. The uncle returned to

England at an old age and died there about fifteen years ago, aged 85 years.



  On his Lyon county farm Mr. Wheatley resided sixteen years. During his

residence there he prospered and added considerable to his holdings. He now owns

1,040 acres of land there all in one body and all well improved. In 1900 he

moved to Ellsworth village and has since lived a retired life, looking after his

farms, all of which are rented. Of Midland township, Lyon county, he served ten

years as treasurer. He is a member of the Congregational church and of the

Knights of Pythias lodge.



  In Chicago, Ill., on June 14, 1884, Mr. Wheatley was married to Mrs. Jennie

Thompson, a native of England. To them has been born one child, Raymond A., born

in Lyon county July 21, 1887. The boy is now a student at Drake university.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908





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