Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — HON. WM. A. WHEELER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HON. WM. A. WHEELER.

Precarious Condition of the ex-Vice President’s Health. A dispatch from Malone, N. Y., states that ex-Vice President Wm. A. Wheeler’s health is in a precarious condition. His physicians say he cannot survive many months. Wm. A. Wheeler, L. L. D., was born on June 30, 1819, in Malone, Franklin County, New York. He entered the University of Vermont, and afterward commenced the study of law with Col. Asa Hascall. He was made District Attorney for Franklin County, N. Y., and was its Superintendent of Schools. In the

years of 1850 and 1851 Mr. Wheeler represented that county in the New York House ®f Assembly, and was a member of the Senate of New York in 1858 and'lßs9, and President pro tem. of that body. He was a member and the President of the New York Constitutional Convention ip 1867 and 1868, and was elected a Republican in Congress to the Thirty-seventh, Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third, and Fortyfourth Congresses. He was elected to the Vice Presidency of the United States on March 2, 1877. Mr. Wheeler is a man of dignified, commanding presence, his manners are cordial, and his conversation is unusually interesting. ' '■