Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . dshire, England, after thewar of the Rvolution and settled inMaryland, where his great grand-father, a communicant of the RomanCatholic church, was converted underthe preaching of Bishop Soule andbecame a Methodist preacher. Dr. Wheats father was a mill-wright. He died when his fourchildren were quite young. An uncle,Benjamin Wheat, was a member ofthe Central Illinois Conference andis buried at Bloomington, 111. Hisbrother, Charles, was a member ofthe Upper Iowa Conference untilhis death in Dubuque, Iowa, lastsprin
Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . dshire, England, after thewar of the Rvolution and settled inMaryland, where his great grand-father, a communicant of the RomanCatholic church, was converted underthe preaching of Bishop Soule andbecame a Methodist preacher. Dr. Wheats father was a mill-wright. He died when his fourchildren were quite young. An uncle,Benjamin Wheat, was a member ofthe Central Illinois Conference andis buried at Bloomington, 111. Hisbrother, Charles, was a member ofthe Upper Iowa Conference untilhis death in Dubuque, Iowa, lastspring. He was married to Sarah MartinAug. 21, 1860. To them were bornsix children: Mrs. Rosa Tingley,who died; Charles Wheat, of Chicago; Mrs. Anna Foster, of Greenfield, 111.;Mrs. Laura Bailey, of Tulsa, Okla.; Samuel Wheat, of Fort Worth, Texas,and William H. Wheat, of Rantoul, Illinois. One year after his marriage he enlisted in the Third Iowa Cavalryand was not finally mustered out until the fall of 1865. His was an hon-orable record of service for the flag he loved so 1910 MEMOIRS 175 He was converted at Salem, Iowa, under the preaching of LieutenantColonel William A. Pyle, a militant Methodist preacher, and was licensed topreach while in camp in Little Rock, Ark., by the Union Band organized inhis regiment. At the close of the war his license was renewed by theQuarterly Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Salem, Iowa. Dr. Wheat was educated in the public schools of Indiana and Iowa, andat Bairds Classical Seminary. His instructor in the languages was thescholarly J. S. Bardwick, late professor in Lewis College, and in law in thenon-resident course of the Chicago University. In 1869 Dr. Wheat began preaching regularly as pastor of the ReformSchool in Iowa. In 1870 he was assigned to Williamstown circuit in Mis-souri. Besides holding revival meetings at all of the seven appointmentsin this charge, a good church was erected at Williamstown. In 1871 he wasappoi
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