Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — HON. WM. A. WHEELER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HON. WM. A. WHEELER.

Precarious Condition of the ex-Vice Pres--1 ident’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. Win. 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 of Assembly, and was a member of the •Senate of New York in 1858 and 1859. and President pro tenl. of that body. He was a member and the President of the New York Constitutional Convention in 1867 and IS- 8. and was elected a Republican in to the Thirty-seventh, Forty-first, Forty-seeond, Forty-third, and Fortyfourth Congresses. H - was elected to the Vice Presidency of tie United States on March 2, 1877. Mr. Wheeler is a*'man of dignified, commanding presence, his m tinners are cordial, and his conversation is unusually interesting.

A child walking with his father oqeday, saw a hen’s feather lying in the street. He stopped abruptly, and stood gazin’ at it for some minutes, then pointing toward it inquired: “Angel?—or turkey?” “I SHOULD’like to box your ears,” said the Chicago girl to an audacious Detroiter, and then added, reflectively, “if I could find a box big enough.” Fond father—“ Don’t you think I ought to have my’daughter’s voice cultivated?” Tutored think you ought to have something done to it.”