Amos Dean WHEELER

1803 - 1876  (72 years)

• Name	Amos Dean WHEELER  [1]
  	His father dying when he was three years old, he was adopted by James Udall, Esquire, of Hartland, Vt., with whom he lived until seventeen yeas of age, receiving instruction in the common schools and at Thetford Academy. In 1820 he went to Leicester, Mass., where his relatives resided, and attended Leicester Academy for a while, subsequently teaching school until he entered Williams College, from which he graduated in 1827. he then taught the academy at Marlboro for two years, at the expiration of which time he was elected principal of the Latin Grammar School in Salem, He remained in that position for three years, studying theology, meantime, with the Reverend Charles Upham, D.D., who was then pastor of the First Church in Salem. Resigning his school in 1832, he spent a year at Harvard Divinity School, graduating therefrom in 1833. From Cambridge he went to Meadville, Pa., to supply the pulpit of the unitarian Society, and remained there seven or eight months. While at Meadville he received a call to settle over that parish, but declined on account of the distance from his relatives and friends. In 1834 he was invited to and was settled over the unitarian Society in Standish, Me. He continued in that place until 1839, when he received a call to settle in Topsham, Me., where he ever after lived. For fourteen years he preached in the Unitarian Meeting-house in Topsham. At the end of that time the Unitarian Society of Topsham and the universalist Society of Brunswick were united under the name of "The Mason Street Religious Society," in Brunswick, and Mr. Wheeler was invited to become pastor of the new organization. He preached to this society until 1865, when he resigned and was soon after appointed missionary for The American unitarian Association to the State of Maine. In 1860 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Bowdoin College. He was a member of the Maine Historical Society and for many years was a member of its standing committee. Soon after coming to Topsham he was elected a member of the superintending school committee of the town and held the position until within a few years of his death. He was also for many years on the committee of examination of Bowdoin College. "He was a man of unquestioned ability, of cultivated, and literary tastes, an easy graceful writer and ready in extempore address. Few of his contemporaries excelled him in mathematical scholarship. He kept well up with the college curriculum in all its departments. He had a poetic taste and faculty beyond the average of cultivated men. Of clear mental vision and acute argumentative powers, he was strong as he was also fair and good-natured in general debate." "Calm habitually, even to sedateness, self-governed and judicious, he could yet make merry with the gayest within the bounds of right and reason. Of singular purity of life and conversation, possessing a heart as tender and true as that of a child, scorning all equivocations, pursuing the right with unflinching purpose, leading the life of the humble and devoted Christian he won the love and esteem of all who knew him." His wife, now eighty-four years of age, is living with her son Henry in Brunswick, Maine. [1]
  Birth	13 Dec 1803	Woodstock, Vermont   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Jun 1876	Topsham, Maine   [1]
  Person ID	I101222	Main Tree
  Last Modified	20 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	Amos WHEELER,   b. 5 Aug 1764, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts d. 17 Nov 1806, Woodstock, Vermont (Age 42 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Lydia RANDALL,   b. 14 Sep 1767, Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts d. 29 Sep 1856 (Age 89 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	18 Jun 1803  [1]
  Family ID	F42061	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Louisa Amelia WARREN,   b. 18 Aug 1807
  Marriage	25 Aug 1830  [1]
  Family ID	F42069	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Oct 2020

  
  

• Sources

  [S12072] Henry Warren Wheeler, WHEELER and WARREN Families: Descendants of George WHEELER, Concord, Mass., 1638 and of John WARREN, Boston, Mass., 1630.