The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . tors both on his fathersand his mothers side were revolutionary two families moved respectively from Massa-chusetts and Connecticut and settled near Highgateand Castle
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . tors both on his fathersand his mothers side were revolutionary two families moved respectively from Massa-chusetts and Connecticut and settled near Highgateand Castleton, Vt., where the father of the lateex-vice-president was born. After a partial coursein the University of Vermont, he became a lawyer,married Eliza Woodward and removed to Malone,where he died, leaving his son William A., at thetime eight years old, with two sisters and theirmother without means of support. Young Wheelerwas kept at school until he was able to teach, whenhe took charge of a country school, gradually earn-ing enough to justify him in passing two years atthe University of Vermont. He tlaen studied lawfor four years at Malone, where he was admitted tothe bar and from that time forward he was almostcontinuously in office. While studying law he vyaselected town clerk at a salary of twenty dollar,? ayear; then he was made school commissioner andthen sdiool inspector. In 1847, although a whig, he. OdXcp^ ^^ /S^ OF AMEEICAN BIOGRAPHY. 197
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