Judge Nelson Knox Wheeler was born 10 Apr 1807 in Hancock, Delaware Co, NY the son of William Wheeler and Eleanor Knox.
He married Emily Butler Ogden on 22 Dec 1836 in Walton, Delaware Co, NY the daughter of Abraham Ogden and Abigail Weed.
They had seven children: William Ogden, Julia Henrietta, Emily Ogden, Nelson Knox Jr, Eleanor, Caroline Eliza, and Laura.
HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, N.Y.
W.W. Munsell & Co
1880
JUDGE N. K. WHEELER
Nelson Knox Wheeler was the eldest son of WIlliam and Eleanor Knox Wheeler, deceased, who, at the time of hi birth, resided in Hancock, Delaware County, N.Y. The family moved to Deposit in 1814, when he was a small boy. He attended the Oxford Academy for about one year, in company with U.S. Judge Ward Hunt and Governor Horatio Seymour. Young Hunt often heard him recite his Latin lessons under the direction of the principal. From Oxford he went to the Cortland Academy, at Homer, where he fitted for college. He entered Hamilton College one year in advance, and remained there nearly two years. He entered Union College, where he graduated in 1828; then studied law at Delhi with Samuel Sherwood, and in 1832 commenced the practice of law at Delhi with Noadiah Johnson, then member of Congress, and so continued till Johnson's death. In 1836 he married Emily B. Ogden, of Walton, by whom he had one son and five daughters, whom he reared and two of whom are married. After Mr. Johnson's death he practiced law in copartnership with his brother, Truman H. Wheeler. He held the office of Supreme Court commissioner when by law the powers of a judge of the Supreme Court at chambers were conferred on said office. He then held the office of district attorney for one term; after that he was surrogate one term and was then appointed first judge of the Court of Common Pleas, under the old Common Pleas system, and acted as such during the notorious anti-rent times. In those times he tried and sentenced many persons to State prison for criminal offenses growing out of the anti-rent excitement. He moved with his family to Deposit in 1849, where he practiced law. In 1855 he went west to attend to the foreclosure of a railroad mortgage in Illinois and Wisconsin, and the reorganization thereof under the name of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad Company, of which he was vice-president and counsel, in which position he remained until the company became insolvent. He then left that company and accepted the position of commissioner and agent of the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company and the trustees of the bondholders, for the valuation and sale of their large quantity of lands in Wisconsin; residing chiefly at Fond du Lac till the company failed -- a result of embarrassment produced by the financial crisis of 1857. Soon afterward he accepted the office of deputy collector of customs in New York, under Hiram Barney, collector, where he remained several years. After that he was appointed by the mayor and aldermen of the city of New York a police justice for the term of ten years, commencing January 1st, 1874, which office he now holds. He was a member of Assembly from Delaware county two terms, first term when quite a young man.
The writer of this brief biography has known Judge Wheeler well for more than sixty years, having attended common school with him at Deposit under several teachers, and was also with him at the Cortland Academy. In his youth he excelled as a scholar. In the practice of his profession he was a thorough and successful lawyer. In all the offices which he has held , their various duties have been discharged to the entire satisfaction of the public and the parties in interest, and through life he has been governed by a high sense of probity and honor. Since 1849 Judge Wheeler has improved his very valuble and picturesque old homestead farm in Deposit, in which he takes great interest. He has a dairy farm of some eight hundred acres near the village; is fond of rural life, and when he can be relieved temporarily from his official duties in New York as police magistrate he immediately takes a run into the country to see his old friends, get a look at his farms and stock and take a sniff of the pure mountain air of his native county. He is now hale and hearty, with a fair prospect of several years active usefulness.
-- M. R. H.
He married Emily Butler Ogden on 22 Dec 1836 in Walton, Delaware Co, NY the daughter of Abraham Ogden and Abigail Weed.
They had seven children: William Ogden, Julia Henrietta, Emily Ogden, Nelson Knox Jr, Eleanor, Caroline Eliza, and Laura.
HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, N.Y.
W.W. Munsell & Co
1880
JUDGE N. K. WHEELER
Nelson Knox Wheeler was the eldest son of WIlliam and Eleanor Knox Wheeler, deceased, who, at the time of hi birth, resided in Hancock, Delaware County, N.Y. The family moved to Deposit in 1814, when he was a small boy. He attended the Oxford Academy for about one year, in company with U.S. Judge Ward Hunt and Governor Horatio Seymour. Young Hunt often heard him recite his Latin lessons under the direction of the principal. From Oxford he went to the Cortland Academy, at Homer, where he fitted for college. He entered Hamilton College one year in advance, and remained there nearly two years. He entered Union College, where he graduated in 1828; then studied law at Delhi with Samuel Sherwood, and in 1832 commenced the practice of law at Delhi with Noadiah Johnson, then member of Congress, and so continued till Johnson's death. In 1836 he married Emily B. Ogden, of Walton, by whom he had one son and five daughters, whom he reared and two of whom are married. After Mr. Johnson's death he practiced law in copartnership with his brother, Truman H. Wheeler. He held the office of Supreme Court commissioner when by law the powers of a judge of the Supreme Court at chambers were conferred on said office. He then held the office of district attorney for one term; after that he was surrogate one term and was then appointed first judge of the Court of Common Pleas, under the old Common Pleas system, and acted as such during the notorious anti-rent times. In those times he tried and sentenced many persons to State prison for criminal offenses growing out of the anti-rent excitement. He moved with his family to Deposit in 1849, where he practiced law. In 1855 he went west to attend to the foreclosure of a railroad mortgage in Illinois and Wisconsin, and the reorganization thereof under the name of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad Company, of which he was vice-president and counsel, in which position he remained until the company became insolvent. He then left that company and accepted the position of commissioner and agent of the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company and the trustees of the bondholders, for the valuation and sale of their large quantity of lands in Wisconsin; residing chiefly at Fond du Lac till the company failed -- a result of embarrassment produced by the financial crisis of 1857. Soon afterward he accepted the office of deputy collector of customs in New York, under Hiram Barney, collector, where he remained several years. After that he was appointed by the mayor and aldermen of the city of New York a police justice for the term of ten years, commencing January 1st, 1874, which office he now holds. He was a member of Assembly from Delaware county two terms, first term when quite a young man.
The writer of this brief biography has known Judge Wheeler well for more than sixty years, having attended common school with him at Deposit under several teachers, and was also with him at the Cortland Academy. In his youth he excelled as a scholar. In the practice of his profession he was a thorough and successful lawyer. In all the offices which he has held , their various duties have been discharged to the entire satisfaction of the public and the parties in interest, and through life he has been governed by a high sense of probity and honor. Since 1849 Judge Wheeler has improved his very valuble and picturesque old homestead farm in Deposit, in which he takes great interest. He has a dairy farm of some eight hundred acres near the village; is fond of rural life, and when he can be relieved temporarily from his official duties in New York as police magistrate he immediately takes a run into the country to see his old friends, get a look at his farms and stock and take a sniff of the pure mountain air of his native county. He is now hale and hearty, with a fair prospect of several years active usefulness.
-- M. R. H.
Judge Nelson Knox Wheeler was born 10 Apr 1807 in Hancock, Delaware Co, NY the son of William Wheeler and Eleanor Knox.
He married Emily Butler Ogden on 22 Dec 1836 in Walton, Delaware Co, NY the daughter of Abraham Ogden and Abigail Weed.
They had seven children: William Ogden, Julia Henrietta, Emily Ogden, Nelson Knox Jr, Eleanor, Caroline Eliza, and Laura.
HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, N.Y.
W.W. Munsell & Co
1880
JUDGE N. K. WHEELER
Nelson Knox Wheeler was the eldest son of WIlliam and Eleanor Knox Wheeler, deceased, who, at the time of hi birth, resided in Hancock, Delaware County, N.Y. The family moved to Deposit in 1814, when he was a small boy. He attended the Oxford Academy for about one year, in company with U.S. Judge Ward Hunt and Governor Horatio Seymour. Young Hunt often heard him recite his Latin lessons under the direction of the principal. From Oxford he went to the Cortland Academy, at Homer, where he fitted for college. He entered Hamilton College one year in advance, and remained there nearly two years. He entered Union College, where he graduated in 1828; then studied law at Delhi with Samuel Sherwood, and in 1832 commenced the practice of law at Delhi with Noadiah Johnson, then member of Congress, and so continued till Johnson's death. In 1836 he married Emily B. Ogden, of Walton, by whom he had one son and five daughters, whom he reared and two of whom are married. After Mr. Johnson's death he practiced law in copartnership with his brother, Truman H. Wheeler. He held the office of Supreme Court commissioner when by law the powers of a judge of the Supreme Court at chambers were conferred on said office. He then held the office of district attorney for one term; after that he was surrogate one term and was then appointed first judge of the Court of Common Pleas, under the old Common Pleas system, and acted as such during the notorious anti-rent times. In those times he tried and sentenced many persons to State prison for criminal offenses growing out of the anti-rent excitement. He moved with his family to Deposit in 1849, where he practiced law. In 1855 he went west to attend to the foreclosure of a railroad mortgage in Illinois and Wisconsin, and the reorganization thereof under the name of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad Company, of which he was vice-president and counsel, in which position he remained until the company became insolvent. He then left that company and accepted the position of commissioner and agent of the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company and the trustees of the bondholders, for the valuation and sale of their large quantity of lands in Wisconsin; residing chiefly at Fond du Lac till the company failed -- a result of embarrassment produced by the financial crisis of 1857. Soon afterward he accepted the office of deputy collector of customs in New York, under Hiram Barney, collector, where he remained several years. After that he was appointed by the mayor and aldermen of the city of New York a police justice for the term of ten years, commencing January 1st, 1874, which office he now holds. He was a member of Assembly from Delaware county two terms, first term when quite a young man.
The writer of this brief biography has known Judge Wheeler well for more than sixty years, having attended common school with him at Deposit under several teachers, and was also with him at the Cortland Academy. In his youth he excelled as a scholar. In the practice of his profession he was a thorough and successful lawyer. In all the offices which he has held , their various duties have been discharged to the entire satisfaction of the public and the parties in interest, and through life he has been governed by a high sense of probity and honor. Since 1849 Judge Wheeler has improved his very valuble and picturesque old homestead farm in Deposit, in which he takes great interest. He has a dairy farm of some eight hundred acres near the village; is fond of rural life, and when he can be relieved temporarily from his official duties in New York as police magistrate he immediately takes a run into the country to see his old friends, get a look at his farms and stock and take a sniff of the pure mountain air of his native county. He is now hale and hearty, with a fair prospect of several years active usefulness.
-- M. R. H.
He married Emily Butler Ogden on 22 Dec 1836 in Walton, Delaware Co, NY the daughter of Abraham Ogden and Abigail Weed.
They had seven children: William Ogden, Julia Henrietta, Emily Ogden, Nelson Knox Jr, Eleanor, Caroline Eliza, and Laura.
HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, N.Y.
W.W. Munsell & Co
1880
JUDGE N. K. WHEELER
Nelson Knox Wheeler was the eldest son of WIlliam and Eleanor Knox Wheeler, deceased, who, at the time of hi birth, resided in Hancock, Delaware County, N.Y. The family moved to Deposit in 1814, when he was a small boy. He attended the Oxford Academy for about one year, in company with U.S. Judge Ward Hunt and Governor Horatio Seymour. Young Hunt often heard him recite his Latin lessons under the direction of the principal. From Oxford he went to the Cortland Academy, at Homer, where he fitted for college. He entered Hamilton College one year in advance, and remained there nearly two years. He entered Union College, where he graduated in 1828; then studied law at Delhi with Samuel Sherwood, and in 1832 commenced the practice of law at Delhi with Noadiah Johnson, then member of Congress, and so continued till Johnson's death. In 1836 he married Emily B. Ogden, of Walton, by whom he had one son and five daughters, whom he reared and two of whom are married. After Mr. Johnson's death he practiced law in copartnership with his brother, Truman H. Wheeler. He held the office of Supreme Court commissioner when by law the powers of a judge of the Supreme Court at chambers were conferred on said office. He then held the office of district attorney for one term; after that he was surrogate one term and was then appointed first judge of the Court of Common Pleas, under the old Common Pleas system, and acted as such during the notorious anti-rent times. In those times he tried and sentenced many persons to State prison for criminal offenses growing out of the anti-rent excitement. He moved with his family to Deposit in 1849, where he practiced law. In 1855 he went west to attend to the foreclosure of a railroad mortgage in Illinois and Wisconsin, and the reorganization thereof under the name of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad Company, of which he was vice-president and counsel, in which position he remained until the company became insolvent. He then left that company and accepted the position of commissioner and agent of the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company and the trustees of the bondholders, for the valuation and sale of their large quantity of lands in Wisconsin; residing chiefly at Fond du Lac till the company failed -- a result of embarrassment produced by the financial crisis of 1857. Soon afterward he accepted the office of deputy collector of customs in New York, under Hiram Barney, collector, where he remained several years. After that he was appointed by the mayor and aldermen of the city of New York a police justice for the term of ten years, commencing January 1st, 1874, which office he now holds. He was a member of Assembly from Delaware county two terms, first term when quite a young man.
The writer of this brief biography has known Judge Wheeler well for more than sixty years, having attended common school with him at Deposit under several teachers, and was also with him at the Cortland Academy. In his youth he excelled as a scholar. In the practice of his profession he was a thorough and successful lawyer. In all the offices which he has held , their various duties have been discharged to the entire satisfaction of the public and the parties in interest, and through life he has been governed by a high sense of probity and honor. Since 1849 Judge Wheeler has improved his very valuble and picturesque old homestead farm in Deposit, in which he takes great interest. He has a dairy farm of some eight hundred acres near the village; is fond of rural life, and when he can be relieved temporarily from his official duties in New York as police magistrate he immediately takes a run into the country to see his old friends, get a look at his farms and stock and take a sniff of the pure mountain air of his native county. He is now hale and hearty, with a fair prospect of several years active usefulness.
-- M. R. H.
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