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FRANK S. WHEELER, a member of the Chautauqua county bar, is a son of Silas and Maria (Camp) Wheeler, and was born in the town of Ellington, Chautauqua county, New York, December 16, 1864.

His great-grandfather, Seth Wheeler, was born in New Hampshire, in which State he lived during his life time; he was a farmer by occupation. Moses Wheeler (grandfather) was born in New Hampshire, but removed to Ellington, Chautauqua county, New York, in 1824 or 1825. He was a farmer by occupation, and a whig in politics until the disruption of that party, when he joined the republican ranks. When the Free Will Baptist church of Ellington was organized in 1824, Moses Wheeler was one of the eight original members. He had four children, two sons, Albert and Silas, and two daughters, Emily and Mary Jane. One of his sons, Silas Wheeler (father), was born in the town of Ellington in 1834, and is a prosperous farmer of the town of Poland, owning about three hundred acres of land in the towns of Ellington and Poland. He is a republican, and always votes that ticket. In 1862 he married Maria Camp, daughter of William and Eliza Camp, of the town of Poland. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler have had one child, Frank S. Wheeler. William Camp, Mrs. Wheeler’s father, was born in Onondaga county, New York, and removed to Chautauqua county about 1831, and settled in the town of Poland. He is a farmer by occupation, and a republican. He married Eliza Wheelock, daughter of Eliab Wheelock, of the town of Poland. Mr. and Mrs. Camp had three children: Maria, Julia and Martha.

Frank S. Wheeler received his education in the public schools of the town of Ellington, in the Ellington academy and the Chamberlain institute at Randolph, Cattaraugus county, from which latter institution he was graduated in 1883. In the fall of 1884 he began the study of law, reading first with Theodore Case, of Ellington, and with Bootey, Fowler & Weeks, of Jamestown, and then attended the law school at Albany, from which he was graduated in 1887, and was admitted to the bar as attorney and counsellor of the State in 1887, since which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession, first at Ellington, but since July, 1890, at Jamestown, where he has decided to make his permanent home.

He votes the Republican ticket, but avoids all political complications. During the Harrison campaign he unfortunately lost his left leg by the bursting of a cannon. He is a member of Lodge 97, A. O. U. W., of Ellington, and I. O. O. F., No. 522, of Kennedy.