Dr. David Hilton Wheeler, D.D., LL.D. and Sophia Seymour

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Husband Dr. David Hilton Wheeler, D.D., LL.D. ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1829 - Ithaca, Tompkins Co, NY 1
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           Died:  - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA
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         Father: Solomon Wheeler (      -      )
         Mother: Alice Babcock (      -      )

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   Other Spouse: Mary D. Demerest (      -      ) 2

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Wife Sophia Seymour

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. David Hilton Wheeler, D.D., LL.D.

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He served as United States Consul at Genoa, Italy, during the administration of President Lincoln, was twice president of Northwestern University and for a period of years between his two incumbencies at that institution, was president of Allegheny College.

His life was devoted to education and authorship. He taught Latin in the Rock River Seminary, served two years as superintendent of schools in Carroll County, Illinois; five years as professor of Greek in the Cornell College, Iowa, and eight years as professor of English literature in Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois. Between his services at Cornell College and that at Evanston, he filled the office of United States consul at Geneva, where he pursued historical and linguistic studies. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Cornell College and that of LL. D. by the Northwestern University. During his administration the following were the numbers of graduates: 1883, 32; 1884, 24; 1885, 25; 1886, 30; 1887, 21; 1888, 33. For the year 1888-9 Wilbur G. Williams, D. D., was placed in the presidential chair and the graduates of that year were 33. At the close of the year Dr. Wheeler was reinstated as president and the graduates were: 1890, 42; 1891, 29; 1892, 29; 1893, 35. At the close of 1893 Dr. Wheeler resigned and gave his attention exclusively to literary pursuits and to authorship. During his administration, Wilcox Hall, devoted to chemistry and the natural sciences, was secured.

1 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 268.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 184.