Dallas County, TX - Biographies -  Clayton Miller Wheat

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John Henry Brown's History of Dallas County, 1892, pp. 482

CLAYTON MILLER WHEAT, a retired merchant of Dallas City, Texas, was born
in the Pennyroyal region of Kentucky, in 1829, and was a son of Milton
P. Wheat, a native of Virginia. The father emigrated to Kentucky at an
early day, and later on settled in Adair county, where Clayton M. passed
his youth. He received only an ordinary education, but he made the most
of his limited opportunities, and by close application fitted himself
for mercantile life. The first business in which he engaged was that of
merchandising in Kentucky, but he was afterward obliged to dispose of
his inter interests there and removed to St. Paul, Minnesota, on account
of ill health. He embarked in the same business there, and after 3 long
and successful career came to Dallas, in 1873. He established himself in
the same line. At the end of five years he retired from active pursuits,
and is living in comparative retirement. Mr. Wheat was married in 1850,
to Miss Elizabeth E. Wheat, of Kentucky, and to them have been born
seven children, six of whom are living, all residents of Texas; there
are four sons and two daughters. Soon after coming to Dallas county Mr.
Wheat purchased a small tract of land which was then far beyond the
center of population' and he still retains the old homestead. As his
children have grown to maturity and married, he has given them a home in
sight of the paternal roof. He has been a member of the Christian Church
since 1848, and no man has more nearly squared his life by the precepts
of the New Testament. In his political, social and business relations
lie has employed the same high rules of conduct. He has always possessed
the courage to carry out his convictions upon all subjects, and has won
the lasting confidence of the entire community.