Seventh of 11 children of AUGUSTUS WHEATON & HANNAH GIVENS
Occupation: Hardware business, railroad speculator, flour mill owner, editor of Northfield Standard and Rice County Journal
Politics: Part of a network of radical abolitionists: the Wheaton house was a station on the Underground Railroad, helping escaped slaves travel to Canada; elected to Minnesota state legislature House of Representatives
Married (1) Jun 24, 1834, ELLEN DOUGLAS BIRDSEYE, Syracuse, Onondaga Co., New York
Twelve children:
1. Cornelia WHEATON
1835 - 1878
2. Edward WHEATON
1837 - 1905
3. Homer Birdseye WHEATON
1838 - 1839
4. Ellen L. WHEATON
1838 - 1915
5. Emma C. WHEATON
1841 - 1882
6. Clara WHEATON
1843 - 1925
7. Florence B. WHEATON
1845 - unkn
8. Lucia Kate WHEATON
1847 - 1926
9. Henry Birdseye WHEATON
1849 - unkn
10. Mary "Minnie" Hascal WHEATON
1851 - 1914
11. Charles Augustus WHEATON, Jr.
1853 - 1916
12. Mabel F. WHEATON
1855 - aft 1897
Married (2) May 15, 1861, the widow MARTHA ELIZABETH "MARY" (ARCHIBALD) WAGENER, Northfield, Rice Co., Minnesota
Five children:
1. Frederick E. WHEATON
1862 - 1881
2. Robert Archibald WHEATON
1863 - 1898
3. Allan Givens WHEATON
1866 - 1934
4. Edith Stanley WHEATON
1867 - 1954
5. Annabel A. WHEATON
1869 - 1946
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Above bio by Catherine Sevenau Nov 2010, Jul 2013, edited
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Mar 22, 1882, Faribault Republican Faribault, Rice Co., Minnesota:
Honorable Charles A. Wheaton, senior publisher and editor of the Rice County Journal, died at his residence in Northfield on Tuesday morning, the 14th inst., in the seventy-third year of his age. Death came sooner than was anticipated, although his case had been recognized as hopeless. Mr. Wheaton was a man of ability and cultivation, and was much respected in the community in which he lived. He was a native of Syracuse, N. Y., and for some years pursued a mercantile career. He was an ardent champion of the free-soil movement, and ran in one campaign as the candidate of that party for Lieut. Governor. Meeting with financial reverses he removed to Minnesota in 1854, and after living in various places settled in Northfield in 1861, where he became interested in the real estate business with Hon. John W. North. About ten years ago he embarked in the newspaper business as the editor of the Rice County Journal, in which capacity he continued till his death. His influence was always thrown in favor of temperance and those measures which tended to the moral and material welfare of the community. Mr. Wheaton was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1867. He leaves a large family, among them being Dr. C.A. Wheaton and Mrs. N.P. Langford, of St. Paul, and Mrs. Thomas Smith, of Dakota. Husband of Ellen Birdseye and Martha Archibald Wagner.
Source: FARIBAULT REPUBLICAN, 22 Mar 1882, via Dalby Database