When John Wheeler was born on 13 September 1804, in Graveley, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Wheeler Sr, was 35 and his mother, Mary Fisher, was 24. He married Elizabeth Gillings on 18 November 1830, in Toseland, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Kane Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1856 and Weber, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 5 January 1885, in North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Ben Lomond Cemetery, North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesMARY WHEELER CHADWICK Mary wheeler Chadwick was not a large woman. She was slender and only five foot two inches tall, with dark hair, which she combed with a part in the center and then straight …
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