Bio: Wheelan, Edward (1881)

 
Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Wheelan, Cody, Wright

----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1206

EDWARD WHEELAN, Grand Rapids, was born in Ireland, County Wicklow, Feb. 20, 1839. He is a son of Edward and Catharine Wheelan. His mother's maiden name was Cody. His father removed to the United States in 1848, and came directly to Milwaukee, Wis. There he died the next year of cholera. His mother removed, soon after, to the town of Friendship, on Winnebago Lake, remained there some two years, then removed to Fond du Lac two years, then in Oakfield, thence to Oasis, in Waushara County, where he lived until 1859, when he came to Grand Rapids and engaged in logging and lumbering on the headquarters of the Wis. River and its branches ever since, until he was elected Sheriff of Wood County, in the Fall of 1880, which office he now holds. Mr. W. was married, Jan. 6, 1870, to Miss Mary Wright, of Centralia. They have five children — Wm. Edward, Harrison Valentine, Nettie, Edmond Wright and Francis Richard.