Lang, H. O., ed.  "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description 
of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and 
Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal 
Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers."  Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and 
Job Printer, 1885.  p. 662.
 
JAMES WHEELER

     Born in East Tennessee in 1820.  On his arrival in Oregon he settled in
Luckiamute Valley, where he still resides, engaged in farming.  In Oregon, in
1850, he married Mary E. Hawkins, who died in 1869.  In 1870, he married Eliza
J. Miller, who is also deceased; she died in 1879.  His children's manes are --
Sarelia, Mansel, Wilbur, Ida, Zillah, Alonzo, Johanna, Ellis, and E. J.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.