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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Biographical
and
Historical Sketches
A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents
From 1792 to 1896
By Stephen D. Cone
Illustrated
Hamilton, Ohio
Republican Publishing Company
1896
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 |
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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