Everett Pepperell Wheeler

1840 - 1925  (84 years)

• Name	Everett Pepperell Wheeler
  Birth	10 Mar 1840	New York
  Gender	Male
  Death	Feb 1925
  Burial	Brooklyn, Kings, New York
  Person ID	I49779	Scudder
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2013

  
  

  Family	Alice Gilman,   b. 14 Mar 1863, New Haven, Connecticut d. Apr 1945 (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1905
  Family ID	F17934	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Everett graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1856 and from Harvard in 1859, obtaining an LL.B.degree. In 1894, he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of New York, nominated by a split faction of the Democratic Party who were barred from the state convention, and opposed the nomination of ex-governor David B. Hill. Later he helped found the Citizens Union. He drafted the bill which created in 1897 the consolidated City of New York, incorporating the buroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. He was one of the founders of the American Bar Association.