When Curtiss Wheeler was born on 7 December 1795, in Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Ebenezer Wheeler, was 33 and his mother, Love Curtiss, was 24. He married Mehitable Smith on 1 January 1829. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States for about 30 years. He died on 24 November 1866, at the age of 70, and was buried in Southford Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.
History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.
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