Wheeler married Miss Harriet Wood of Lowell, Mass., and took up work among the Ojibway Indians at Madeline Island.

The evidence

• “"When thirty years of age, on April 26, 1841, Mr. Wheeler married Miss Harriet Wood, of Lowell, Mass., and immediately thereafter, accompanied by his bride, took up his chosen work among the Ojibway Indians at Madeline island.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 329 / book p. 826

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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