ID: Edgar Mason Wheaton 1900 census (Gen. 9: John-Walter-William-Skipper-William-David-Lucy-Lydia-Edgar)

Source: original image from Putnam, Windham Co., CT

Transcription:

Wheaton, Edgar M., born Mar 1851, 49, contractor/builder, bp CT, parents bp CT

Wheaton, Charity E., wife, born Feb 1849, 51, keeping house, bp IL, father bp NY, mother bp MA

Wheaton, Mary A., daughter, born May 1874, 26, bp CT, father bp CT, mother bp IL

Wheaton, Walter A., son, born May 1889, 21, bp CT, father bp CT, mother bp IL, carpenter

Wheaton, Henry W., son, born Nov 1881, 18, bp CT, father bp CT, mother bp IL, at school

Wheaton, William E., son, born Aug 1884, 15, bp CT, father bp CT, mother bp IL, at school

Wheaton, Raymond T., son, born Aug 1888, 11, bp CT, father bp CT, mother bp IL, at school

Wheaton, Frank A., son, born Oct 1875, married less than 1 yr, bp CT, father bp CT, mother bp IL, carpenter

Wheaton, Mabel B., daughter-in-law, born Jan 1883, married less than 1 yr, bp CO, father bp CAN, mother bp IL

Notes: Edgar was the son of Deacon Angell and Lydia Ann (Williams) Wheaton. According to the Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties, Connecticut, he was "born in Pomfret, Conn., April 18, 1851 ... At the age of eighteen he went to Wheaton, Ill., a town founded by and largely built up through the efforts of his two uncles, Jesse and Warren Wheaton, both pioneer settlers of that state ... For a year and a half after his arrival there, Mr. Wheaton pursued his studies in the college located there, and thence went to Humboldt, Iowa, where he engaged in the manufacture, purchase and sale of lime and lime-stone ... He then availed himself of a favorable opportunity to dispose of his interests to Des Moines parties, and his next business project was that involved in the opening of a cabinet shop ... Mr. Wheaton passed about two years in Humboldt, Iowa, and finally decided to return to his native town of Pomfret, reaching home just in time to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner beneath the parental roof in 1872. Mr. Wheaton remained in Pomfret until the following spring, when his judgment as to the business possibilities in hi line in Putnam led him to come to that place and to purchase a tract of land ... On August 25, 1872, at Independence, Iowa, Mr. Wheaton was united in marriage to Miss Charity Eliza Jayne, who was born in Barrington, Ill. ... To them have been born six children ... " According to Fairfield family historian Frank Corbin, Edgar died January 21, 1920, in Putnam, CT.