DAVID EVERETT WHEELER
Second son of John Brooks and Hannah (Hills) Wheeler, was born in Grafton, Vt., September 4, 1804. His father removed, a few months after, to Orford, N.H.; where, having been long engaged in mercantile business, he died, August 26, 1842.
He pursued his preparatory studies, principally, at Kimball Union Academy, in Plainfield, N.H. After graduating, he passed one year at the Law School, Cambridge, Mass.; and then removed to the City of New York, where he studied with Hon. Jonas Platt two years, was admitted to the bar in September, 1830, and has since resided, in the practice of his profession.
In 1844, he was elected a Representative to the State Legislature, and a member of the Board of Education of the City of New York.
He was, four years, editor of two periodicals printed in New York. While a member of the Legislature, he published an important Report on the Quarantine Laws; and in 1851, “A discourse before the Order of United Americans.”
He was married, February 14, 1833, to Elizabeth Bartlett, second daughter of Hon. William Jarvis, of Weathersfield, Vt., and a descendant by her mother from Sir William Pepperrell. She died, July 27, 1848 ; and he was again married, February 6, 1854, to Mrs. Myra Ann Haxtun, of New York, daughter of John M. Raymond of Kent, Ct. He had, by his first marriage, five children ; of whom two are living :—Everett Pepperrell, a graduate of the College of the City of New York and of the Harvard Law School, now practicing law in New York, and married to Miss Lydia Lorraine Hodges, of Rutland, Vt.; and Mary Hannah, the wife of Rev. Cornelius Bishop Smith, Rector of the Church of St. James, New York. He has three grandchildren.
Rev. John Wheeler, D.D., of the Class of 1816, President of the University of Vermont, was his brother.
