City: Chattanooga
WHEELER, Xenophon, attorney at law; born Homer, Ohio, Feb. 19, 1835; English descent; son of Salmon and Gillin (Chipman) WHEELER; his father was a farmer; paternal grandfather Zalmon WHEELER, paternal grandmother Hannah (Butler) WHEELER, maternal grandfather Joseph CHIPMAN, maternal grandmother was a Miss READ prior to marriage; educated Oberlin College and Yale University; graduated from Yale in 1860 with a degree of A. B.; married Amanda E. KNOWLTON July 14, 1863; sergeant in 67th Ohio V. I. in the Civil War; was badly wounded at Kearnstown, Va., March 1862; has been married twice; was United States district attorney for East Tennessee from March, 1879, to April, 1883; president of the Richmond Spinning Co.; largely interested in other industrial plants and owns large interest in timber lands in Florida, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia; retired from the practice of law.
