"...Wheeler, John – (11th ten) Born Feb. 3, 1802, in South Carolina, to William and Lucy Wheeler. After arriving in Salt Lake Valley, with the first company, he returned to Winter Quarters. He came back to the valley by 1851. In 1861 he was highly commended by the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society for his fine stock exhibited at the fair in Salt Lake City. Later he went to California..."

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