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History of Manistee, Mason & Oceana Counties, Michigan
H. R. Page & Co., Chicago - 1882

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         EDWARD D. WHEELER, one of the leading lumbermen of Manistee,
       was born in Southfield, Mass., May 8, 1843. When fourteen
       years of age he went to Morrison, Ill., where he was clerk in
       a drug store for a time, and afterwards was in a store at Joliet.
       In the Spring of 1860 he went to Pikes Peak, and after an absence
       of nine months returned to Joliet, and in the Spring of 1861 came
       to Manistee, where he has since advanced to the front rank in
       commercial prominence. For three years after coming to Manistee
       he was in the employ of JOHN CANFIELD. In 1864 he went back to
       Joliet, and remained a year. He then returned to Manistee, and
       was in the employ of MR. ENGELMANN. In the Fall of 1871 he went
       into partnership with Mr. JOHN CANFIELD in the mill property near
       the mouth of the river, the firm being CANFIELD & WHEELER. Sub-
       sequently he became senior member of the firm of WHEELER, MAGILL
       & Co., their mill being on what is known as Blackbird Island.
       MR. WHEELER is emphatically a practical man, and one of the most
       successful managers of mill property.

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