Background
Wheeler, James Everett was born on December 24, 1870 in New Haven. Son of Edwin Saxton and Ella Marion (Welch) Wheeler.
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James Everett Wheeler
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Education
Graduate Hillhouse High School, New Haven, 1887. Student Robert College, Constantinople, Turkey, 1887-1888. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1892, Bachelor of Laws, 1894.
Career
Admitted to Connecticut bar, 1894, since practiced in New Haven. Clerk, later partner Ailing, Webb & Morehouse, 1894-1899. Practiced alone, since 1899.
Councilman New Haven, 1900-1904, member Board of Education, 1904-1908, Board of Finance, 1908-1918.
Secretary Acme Wire Company. Treasurer Connecticut Bar Examining Committee, 1907-1951.
Receiver of Connecticut Mortgage & Title Guaranty Company, 1930-1939, Mechanics Bank of New Haven, 1932-1935. Director Andrew B. Hendry Company, Bradley & Scoville, Incorporated., Dextone Company.
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Membership
Served as chairman Draft Board Northern 6, New Haven, 1917. Chairman Municipal Legal Aid Committee, City of New Haven. Member Connecticut Judicial Council, 1927-1947.
Member New Haven County Law library association, American, Connecticut (secretary-treasurer 1908-1943), New Haven County (treasurer 1920-1949) bar associations, American Law Institute, New Haven County History Society (director), Society Colonial Wars, Wolf’s Head Society (Yale), Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Phi.
Member of Executive Committee Yale Alumni Board, 1932-1935. Clubs: Graduate, Elizabethan, New Haven Lawn.
Connections
Married Edith Pemberton Williams, November 30, 1898 (died September 17, 1953). Children: Mary Pemberton, Lucy Miner (Mistress Franklin Beardsley), Robert (deceased).
