BIO: Henry E. Wheeler, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 431-432.
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  Wheeler, Henry E., was born at Edmeston, Otsego County, N.Y., on 
January 19, 1856. He attended district school, Edmeston Union School, 
and Wyoming Seminary three years. He was converted at eighteen, and 
soon realized that he was called of God to the ministry, but resisted 
his convictions ten years. He received exhorter's license in 1885, and 
his first local preacher's license in 1886, the latter from the 
Kingston Church. In 1888 he went as supply to Fly Creek, and in July, 
1889, he went into the State of Missouri, and on the Hillsboro charge, 
on the St. Louis District of the St. Louis Conference. Here he labored 
about six months, when he moved to St. Louis and joined the First 
Methodist Episcopal Church. In July, 1890, he came back to Edmeston, 
and in February, 1891, went to Castle Creek to fill out the year, the 
pastor, Rev. Volney Bailey, having died. In 1891 he was sent as supply 
to Cherry Ridge, and in 1892 united with the Conference, receiving 
deacon's orders in 1895 and elder's orders in 1897.
  On June 15, 1891, he married Mrs. Mary Lamb Blair, of Castle Creek, 
N.Y., widow of Arthur Edson Blair, M.D. She died at Bethany, Pa., on 
December 18, 1898. On May 1, 1901, he married Miss Phoebe Rogers, at 
Montrose, Pa.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1892-93, Cherry Ridge; 1894-95, 
Damascus; 1896-98, Bethany; 1899-1900, Harpursville; 1901-02, 
Eatonville; 1903, sd.