Foster T. Wheeler Biography, Charles Mix County, SD

	This biography is taken from the "Standard Atlas of Charles Mix 
	County" (1906),published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Page 53

	Transcribed by Joy Fisher, sdgenweb@yahoo.com and may be copied for 
	non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved.

Foster T. Wheeler arrived about 1863 and established a road house or 
stage station at White Swan where he married his Yankton wife. A little 
later he settled on the land where he still resides four miles east of 
Wheeler. He is one of the 19 settlers whom the government tried to eject 
from the Military reservation, but he held onto his land and later 
secured title. Wheeler was one of the county officers under the Lamonte 
organization, the first probate judge for several terms under the 
permanent organization and a member of the legislature in 1873.