When John William Wheeler was born on 14 April 1897, in Madrid, Boone, Iowa, United States, his father, Joshua Wheeler, was 29 and his mother, Mary Villagressa Sturdivant, was 23. He married Edna Ilean Sarver on 30 June 1926, in Madrid, Boone, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Denver, Colorado, United States in 1935 and Wheat Ridge, Jefferson, Colorado, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 25 September 1975, at the age of 78, and was buried in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson, Colorado, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
The Old Colorado Springs city Hall was built between 1901-1905. It was in use until 1997. The historical building was designed by Thomas Barber and Thomas MacLaren.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
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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