When John Anderson Wheeler was born in 1802, in Tennessee, United States, his father, John Wheeler, was 40 and his mother, Massey Mercy Borden, was 40. He married Amelia Frances Mayes on 2 August 1827, in Blount, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Blount, Tennessee, United States in 1830 and Benton, Lowndes, Alabama, United States in 1840. He died on 14 September 1858, in Mount Ida Township, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 56.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
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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