. Compendium of history and biography of Linn County, Missouri. , onMarch 30, 1829; and was a son of Drury N. and Susan E. (Moss)Wheeler, both of the same nativity as himself. The fathers life beganin 1802 and the mothers in 1807. They were married in 1828 and movedto Missouri in 1831, locating in Chariton county, which then extendedto the Iowa line, and the greater part of which was still a were the parents of five sons and five daughters. All are now de-ceased but their son Drury N., Jr., and their daughter, Mrs. ElizabethForest. The father died on November 6, 1861, at the ag
. Compendium of history and biography of Linn County, Missouri. , onMarch 30, 1829; and was a son of Drury N. and Susan E. (Moss)Wheeler, both of the same nativity as himself. The fathers life beganin 1802 and the mothers in 1807. They were married in 1828 and movedto Missouri in 1831, locating in Chariton county, which then extendedto the Iowa line, and the greater part of which was still a were the parents of five sons and five daughters. All are now de-ceased but their son Drury N., Jr., and their daughter, Mrs. ElizabethForest. The father died on November 6, 1861, at the age of mother survived him twenty-five years, and died at Bucklin in 1886,aged seventy-nine. Their son, Robert J. Wheeler, obtained only such an education asthe primitive schools of the wilderness could furnish, so far as academicinstruction was concerned. But he was studious and inquiring, and hisbent was in the upward direction, and he amassed for himself, throughhis own efforts, a considerable fund of general information, especially f, - ^^ *%. ROBERT J. WHEELER HISTORY OF LINN COUXTY 385 along practical lines. He was but two years old when his parentsbrought him to this state, and he remained with them in Charitoncounty until he attained his majority. In the spring of 1850 he leftthem and began farming on his own account. He followed this occupa-tion for fourteen years with decided success and profit. In 1864 he soldhis two farms and moved to Bucklin in this county. Here he turnedhis attention to buying and shipping tobacco, of which there was alarge quantity raised in Linn county at the time. The tobacco business was profitable to him, as his farming hadbeen, and as everything he put his hand to seemed to be. But he ad-hered to this line of trade less than a year, and after selling his stockin it, opened a general merchandising establishment in Bucklin, whichat once secured an extensive and active patronage and jBourished, withaugmenting business and profits,
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