Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Wheeler, C. H. 1849 - 
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     DR. C. H. WHEELER, M. D.  One of Portland's oldest and most highly 
respected physicians is Dr. C. H. Wheeler, who has been engaged in 
professional work for fifty-three years, of which period forty-eight years 
have been spent in Portland. He has been very successful as a practitioner, 
his learning and ability gaining for him a high place in his profession, while 
throughout the communty he commands the genuine esteem of his fellowmen. Dr. 
Wheeler was born on a farm in Dearborn county, Indiana, in 1849, and is a son 
of Pierey and Anne (Holiday) Wheeler. His father was born in Tennessee in 1811 
and was there reared, subsequently locating in Indiana, where he engaged in 
farming. In 1849 he crossed the plains with ox team and covered wagon and on 
the Pacific coast he spent three years in mining, returning east, by way of 
the isthmus of Panama, in 1852. He was married after moving to Indiana and to 
him and his wife were born nine children.

     Dr. Wheeler attended the district schools of his native state and was a 
student in Moores Hill College, at Moores Hill. Indiana. He took up the study 
of medicine under Dr. George Sutton, at Aurora, Indiana, and then entered the 
Ohio Medical College (now the medical department of the University of 
Cincinnati), from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine 
in 1875. Immediately on completing his college work, Dr. Wheeler went west to 
San Francisco and thence on a sailing vessel to Puget sound, landing first at 
Port Ludlow, and later going to Port Townsend, where he entered the Marine 
Hospital conducted by Dr. Miner, who afterwards moved to Seattle and was 
accidentally drowned while on an outing trip. From there Dr. Wheeler went to 
sea, serving as physician for six months on a Pacific mail ship, the "Dakota," 
sailing between Puget sound points Victoria and San Francisco. He then went to 
St. Paul's island, Alaska, and when ready to leave that place was compelled to 
wait six months in Alaska for a boat to take him out. He went to the Marine 
Hospital at San Francisco, in which he served a year under Dr. Ellenwood, and 
in 1878 entered upon the private practice of his profession in that city. In 
August, 1880, he came to Portland, where he has been engaged in general 
practice ever since. He is a member of the medical staff of St. Vincent's 
Hospital, and served for several years as city physician, which office he was 
chiefly instrumental in creating. He is a member of the Portland Academy of 
Medicine, of which he is a past president, and belongs to other medical 
societies. He is a Mason and was formerly a member of the Arlington Club.

     Dr. Wheeler was united in marriage to Miss Agnes A. Ritter, who was born 
in Missouri, and completed her education in Washington high school and Reed 
College, at Portland. The Doctor, though a busy man professionally, has always 
given a due share of his time and attention to the interests of his community, 
supporting all measures calculated to promote the material, civic or moral 
welfare of the city and county. He has a wide acquaintance throughout this 
part of the state and to a marked degree commands the confidence of his 
fellowmen, who have found in him an exemplar of the highest type of 
citizenship.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 924-925

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