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radicalit,nd geu-iship, a Med in or these ifiuence de Urge salth he pathway tppiness e dutiesnature.w. He exampler he wasy favors rwin formg III, swa; ivuuuv _that his demise^was atiiand, aaad without being able to recognized his frfeods about him. * »X SKETCH Of 'SIS LIFE-'bitionlst »me for aIght forubtican, Hauip* ing beenaized • in e for the'William Almon Wheeler ,wa$ bo*o in Malone. Franklin county, X. Y., on June 30, 1819. He was the first and only one of his immediate family who became distinguished. His .grandfather, on the Wheeler side; was. in the revolutionary battle, of Concord, fighting with the Americans. HU mother’s ancestors, , named Woodward, were also revolutionary sbldlerS. The Wheelers were of Massachusetts origin, the Woodwards of Connect!cuti' The two families went to Vermont onjl settled near Highgate and Castleton. At the former place the father Qf the Ute H vice Preei dent was bOrn After a partial course in the^uaiversity of Vermont Jb 6 became ftlawyer, married jvdza Woodward, ahdmoved to'Malone, where he died when his son was 8* years ofd. The family, consisting of the boy William A. add two sisters, being left without means, of t support, mother reared the young children as best she could.. Young Wheeler was kept at sobool until be was' capable of teaching a country school,’ after whiBh time *he wealed hia way' on to highei education., After two jjears in the university of Vermont, he studied law for four years with Asa Has kali, of Malone, an was admired to the bar* . 3 ' !HIS POLITICAL ANB PUBLIC CABERS. JMr. Wheeler was almost continually in office of a public or private nature from the time he was a law student until he left the vice Presidency bn the 4th of March-with him.MALONE IK MOURNING. .f r * ^ 'There is t universal sorrow among' £ people of Malone. Flags were at ha staff and emblems of mourning were d played everywhere. A meeting of citize was held 'fuesday evening, at which' tmen who #ere the associates and frienof his youth and mature manhood volo their own and the community’s love^i him.KB. WHEELER'S INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT Ti : FUNERAL. . ,Some two years since Mi. Wheeler plac a marble casket beside the remains of 1 wife to his lpt in Malone cemetery.;] left' with. his. brother-in-law, Howari King, written instructions to have a oj of oak for him and selected as pall-1 D. W. Lawrence, H. H. Thompson, Taylor, W. A. Short, 0. G. Gleason ja T- R. Kane, all old friends. MajVEj. 8t^ntpn had charge of, the funeral.' j*( TOUCHING SCENES^ AT THE FTTNERALjTuesday was a sad day in the history Malone.., From every hamlet in Frank county, and from St. Lawrence and pi top, where his name was a household wo many staunch friends had oome to pay i last honors to the illustrious dead. Fb at half staff and draped in black hung jPr-the publfo buildings and private residehc All the stores} offices and shops were ?cl ed, and the public schools,’ in which 1
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Keeseville Essex County Republican
Keeseville, New York, US
Thu, Jun 09, 1887
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