George W. Wheeler

George Wakeman Wheeler (born Woodville, Mississippi, December 1,1860; died Bridgeport, Connecticut, July 27, 1932) was an American lawyer, judge, and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Wheeler was the son of George Wakeman Wheeler Sr. (1831-1917) and Lucie (Dowie) Wheeler (1842-1913). His father, from an old Connecticut family, graduated from Amherst College in 1859. He was serving as a superintendent of schools in Mississippi at the time of his son's birth, but later settled in Hackensack, New Jersey where he became a successful insurance broker, served as chairman of the Hackensack Board of Education, and was a common pleas judge, among other civic positions.[1] Wheeler Jr. was educated at the Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and at Yale (class of 1881) and Yale Law School (class of 1883). He formed a partnership with his college roommate Howard J. Curtis which lasted until Wheeler was appointed to the Superior Court in 1893. He became a member of the Supreme Court in September 1910 and Chief Justice in August 1920, serving until his forced retirement upon turning 70 years of age in 1930.[2]

Wheeler married Agnes Leonard Macy on August 24, 1919; two of his children were alive at the time of his death.

References

  1. ↑ Genealogical history of Hudson and Bergen counties, New Jersey, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, ed., The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, p. 208-209
  2. ↑ Connecticut State Library bio, from the Connecticut Record


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