Background
John Hill Wheeler was born in Murfreesboro, N. C. , the son of John and Elizabeth (Jordan) Wheeler. His father was a merchant of Murfreesboro and also conducted a profitable shipping business.
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John Hill Wheeler was born in Murfreesboro, N. C. , the son of John and Elizabeth (Jordan) Wheeler. His father was a merchant of Murfreesboro and also conducted a profitable shipping business.
The younger John prepared for college at Hertford Academy and in 1826 was graduated from Columbian College (now George Washington University). In 1828 he received the degree of A. M. from the University of North Carolina. He studied law under Chief Justice John L. Taylor.
He was licensed to practice in 1827. That same year he began a service of four terms (1827 - 30) in the House of Commons from Hertford County. He was defeated for Congress in 1830 and in 1832 was appointed clerk of the commission to adjudicate upon claims of Americans against France for spoliations. He became superintendent of the Charlotte branch of the United States mint in January 1837, and after four years of service was removed to give place to a Whig. In 1842 he changed his residence to Lincoln County, and was elected state treasurer. Defeated for reëlection in 1844, he spent several years in the preparation of his Historical Sketches of North Carolina (1851). He was a member of the House of Commons in 1852. Appointed minister to Nicaragua through the influence of James C. Dobbin, he assumed office August 2, 1854. During his incumbency occurred the revolution and the arrival of William Walker's filibustering expedition. Walker captured Granada on October 13, 1855. On October 15, Wheeler visited Corral, the Legitimist president, with peace proposals from Walker, and was imprisoned for two days. Later in the month, the Rivas government was set up with Walker's assistance, and was recognized by Wheeler on November 10. Secretary Marcy refused to receive the Nicaraguan envoy and censured Wheeler for his action. In May 1856, however, the envoy was received, and instructions were sent to Wheeler to recognize the existing government. Before he received them, conditions in Nicaragua had changed and in July Walker was inaugurated president. Although Wheeler knew that such was not the intent of his instructions he recognized the Walker government. His activities had passed all diplomatic bounds of propriety, and Marcy's patience, already sadly tried, now gave out. Wheeler would doubtless have been recalled and dismissed but for the friendly influence of Dobbin. In September Marcy summoned Wheeler to Washington, and, after demanding his resignation several times, finally secured it two days before the close of the Pierce administration. Thereafter, Wheeler lived in Washington until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he returned to North Carolina. In 1863 he went to Europe to collect historical material and remained there until the close of the war. Returning to Washington, he spent the remainder of his life there, for most of the time engaged in journalistic work. His death came after a long illness. Wheeler began his historical work in 1843 by compiling for the state Indexes to Documents Relating to North Carolina.
His Historical Sketches of North Carolina, mentioned above, is a badly prepared and ill-assorted collection of documents, state and local history, biographical sketches, and statistics. Like all of his work it abounds in error. Its biographical portions are so partial to members of Wheeler's own party, that it was nicknamed "The Democratic Stud-Book. " In 1874 he published The Legislative Manual and Political Register of the State of North Carolina. His Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina, containing material from his earlier volumes, was published posthumously in 1884. He edited, also, The Narrative of Colonel David Fanning (1861). In spite of their defects, his books performed a valuable service in arousing historical interest both in North Carolina and in other Southern states.
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Wheeler was twice married: first, April 19, 1830, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. O. B. Brown of Washington; she died in 1836, and on November 8, 1838, he married Ellen Oldmixon Sully, daughter of Thomas Sully of Philadelphia, the famous artist. By his first wife he had two sons and a daughter; by the second, two sons.
