BIOGRAPHIES: Gilbert L. WHEELER, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Gilbert L. Wheeler, farmer, P. O. Pepin, was born at Lysander,
Onondaga county, N. Y., August 11, 1843, a son of John M. and Almira
(Lockwood) Wheeler.  His mother died when he was but fifteen months
old and his father about four years later.  After his mother's death,
Gilbert L. lived with his grandmother and an uncle, I. B. Wheeler. 
He attended the district school until nine years old, when the family
removed to Pepin (1853).  At seventeen years of age he began working
as a farm laborer.  January 25, 1862, he enlisted in Company D.,
Seventeenth Wisconsin volunteers.  At the end of two years he re-
enlisted as a veteran volunteer, and served until the close of the
war.  Among the engagements in which he took part were:  battle of
Corinth, siege of Corinth, Champion Hills, Vicksburg (May 19-22,
1863), siege of Vicksburg (Miss.), battle of Big Shanty (Ga.),
Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy Station, Savannah
(Ga.), Pocotaligo, Orangeburg, Columbia (S. C.), Fayetteville,
Bentonville and Raleigh (N. C.).  He was promoted to sergeant in May,
1865.  After the war he returned to Pepin and worked successively in
a grain elevator, on a rented farm from 1867 to 1874, as engineer in
Pfaff's mill from 1877 to 1880.  In 1880 he purchased his present
farm on section twenty-nine, township twenty-three, range fourteen.

Mr. Wheeler was married December 31, 1868, to Miss Ellen M.,
daughter of George and Mary A. (Nettleton) Nichols.  Their son,
George M., was born October 13, 1870, and married Clara J. Fleming,
October 15, 1890.  Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler also had twin daughters, Eva
A. and Emma M., born July 21, 1875; the latter died August 10, 1875. 
Mr. Wheeler is a republican and a member of Benj. Allen Post, G. A.
R., Arkansaw, Wis.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 678.


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