Source:  Biographical & Historical Sketches - A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792 to 1896 - Publ. 1896 - Page 437

Source:  Biographical & Historical Sketches - A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792 to 1896 - Publ. 1896 - Page 384

H. T. WHEELER was born in Tennessee in 1S19, and was educated at the Transylvania University.  He taught in the South until the breaking out of the Civil War when he was forced to find a home in the north to escape death at the hands of traitors to their country, for being a Union man.  He was elected Superintendent of the schools in 1862, serving until June 1863.  He was an advocate of the best systems of instruction and employed them.  He was a man of great mental ability and conducted the schools in a manner that merited the highest commendations.
     He was also Superintendent at Circleville and Springfield, Ohio.  Broken in health by asthma and its complications he was forced to abandon teaching, then immigrated to Kansas
and engaged in cattle raising on a ranch.  He died in 1879.
Source:  Biographical & Historical Sketches - A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792 to 1896 - Publ. 1896 - Page 109

JOHN S. WILES was born in Lebanon, January 29, 1802.  He learned the smith trade in the town of his birth, and followed it for a number of years. Subsequently he removed to Black Bottom, where he taught district schools.  He came to Hamilton in 1836, taught school and served several terms as constable, marshal, justice of the peace and trustee of the poor.
     In 1857, he was elected Mayor, serving until April, 1859, when Ransford Smith succeeded him. In the sixties he was again elected constable.
     In the twilight of life he was an active and enthusiastic worker in the cause of temperance, being a member of Hamilton Temple of Honor No. 17.  On this subject he was a fluent talker and ready debater.
      Mayor Wiles was a man far above the average in ability.  He discharged his official duties without fear or favor.  He died January 22, 1874.
Source:  Biographical & Historical Sketches - A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792 to 1896 - Publ. 1896 - Page 133

CHARLES ALF. WILLIAMS became editor of the Hamilton Daily Democrat, June 1, 1896.  He was born at Rochester, New York, Mar. 16, 1857.  He received a common school education and entered Transylvania University, at Lexington, Kentucky, but remained only a year, when called home by the illness of his father.  He entered a newspaper office and learned the printer's trade at Muncie, Indiana.  Afterward he became a reporter.  He was city editor of the Rome (Ga.,) Tribune, then of the Kansas City Journal, then of the Minneapolis Tribune and in 1884 became managing editor of the Minneapolis Tribune and remained such until 1892.  He became a special writer on the St. Louis Republic, assistant city editor and city editor respectively, leaving there in 1894, to become managing editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
     Mr. Williams was united in marriage with Miss Stella Teel, at Minneapolis, Oct. 20, 1891.  Two children have been born to them.  Mr. Williams is an able newspaper man of great force with which he combines two excellent qualities, energy and tact.
Source:  Biographical & Historical Sketches - A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792 to 1896 - Publ. 1896 - Page 369

JOSEPH WILSON, came West from Newark, New Jersey, in 1811, and located in Rossville.  He carried on a general merchandise store.  The record of this house, covering a period embracing twenty- five years, comprising a part of the history of Rossville, was one of uniform reliability and fairness of dealing, and it enjoyed a steady and prosperous trade and a deservedly high place in public confidence.
     Mr. Wilson's store was an old frame building on the northwest corner of Main and B streets, where the Rumple building now stands. In 18 17 he married a daughter of Samuel Dick, of Ross township, who died in 1846. 
     In 1819 he was appointed Postmaster, serving until 1824.  After the death of his wife, in 1829, he returned to the East where he died in 1859.
Source:  Biographical & Historical Sketches - A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792 to 1896 - Publ. 1896 - Page 129

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