WHEATON
WHEATON
6th corps. In the Chancellorsville campaign,
General Wheaton's brigade took an important
part in the long niglit march to Fredericksburg,
and lost heavily in the assault on Marye's
Heights and the battle of Salem Heights, May 3-
4, 1863. The 6th corps arrived at Gettysburg on
the morning of the second da}', and when General
Ne\vtf)n took command of the 1st corps, General
Wheaton commanded the 3d division of the 6th
corps. He joined in the pursuit of Lee, was pro-
moted major, U.S.A., Nov. 5, 1863, and fought
at Mine Run, Nov. 26-28, 1863. Wlien the 6th
corps was reorganized. General Wheaton com-
manded the 1st brigade, 2d division (Getty).
He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, U.S.A.,
May 5, 18G4, for services at the Wilderness. His
brigade suffei-ed heavily at the bloody angle at
Spottsylvania and at Cold Harbor. When the 6th
corps, under Wright, entered upon the Shenan-
doah campaign, General Wheaton commanded
the 1st division, and was brevetted colonel, U.S.
A., for Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864, and major-
general of volunteers for Opequam, Fisher's Hill
and Middletown, Va. After returning to the
Army of the Potomac, he fought at Petersburg,
Va., and was brevetted brigadier-general, U.S.A.,
for services there, and major-general, U.S.A.,
March 13, 1865. He was mvistered out of the vol-
unteer service April 30, 1866 ; was promoted lieu-
tenant-colonel, 39th infantry, July 28, 1866, and
led the expedition against the Modoc Indians in
1872. He was promoted colonel, Dec. 15, 1874,
brigadier-general, April 8, 1892, and major-gen-
eral, April 2. 1897. He was retired May 8, 1897.
He received from Brown university the honorary
degree of A.M. in 1865, and in July, 1866, the
citizens of Rhode Island presented him with a
sword of honor. General Wheaton died in Wash-
ington, D.C., June 19, 1903.
WHEATON, Henry, jurist and author, was born in Providence, R.I., Nov, 27, 1785 ; son of Seth and Abigail (Wheaton) Wheaton ; grandson of Nathaniel and Hannah (Burr) Wheaton and of Ephraim and Mary (Goffe) Wheaton ; great- grandson of Daniel and Tibitha (Bo wen) Whea- ton ; of Samuel Burr : of the Rev. Ephraim and Mary (Mason) Wheaton, and of William Goffe, the regicide ; greats-grandson of the Rev. Ephraim and JIary (Mason) Wheaton ; and greats-grandson of Robert and Alice (Bovven) Wheaton, the im- migrants, who came from Wales to Rehoboth, Mass., in the seventeenth century. He was graduated at Brown, A.B., 1802, A.M., 1805. and was admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1805. He studied law in Poitiers, Paris and London, 1805- 07 ; practised in Providence, R.I., and was mar- ried in 1811, to his cousin Catherine, daughter of Levi and Martha (Burrill) Wheaton. In 1812 he removed to New York city, becoming editor of
the National Advocate. In 1814 he became di-
vision judge-advocate of the army, and from 1815
to 1819 he was one of the justices of the marine
court in the city of New York. He was reporter
of the supreme court of the United States, 1816-
27 ; a member of the New York constitutional
convention of 1821 ; a member of the assembly
in 1823, and a commissioner to revise the statute
law of New York in 1825. He served as charge
d'affaires to Denmark, 1827-35 ; minister resi-
dent in Prussia the following two years, and in
1837 became minister plenipotentiary. Upon his
return to America in 1847 he was engaged as lec-
turer at Harvard on international law, but died
before entering upon the office. He received
from Brown the degree of LL.D. in 1819 ; from
Harvard A.M. in 1825 and LL.D. in 1845, and
from Hamilton LL.D. in 1843. He is the author
of : Considerations on Uniform Bankrupt Laws
throughout the United States {ISm) ; Digest of the
Law of Maritime Captures and Prizes (1815);
Science of Public or Lnternational Law (1821);
Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of
the United States, 1789-1820 (\82i); Continuation
to 1S39 (1829) ; Reports of Cases in the Supreme
Court of the United States, 1816-27 (12 vols.,
1826-27); History of the Northmen (1831); Li-
quiry into the British Claim to Right of Search
(1832); Elements of International Law (1836);
Progres dn Droit des Gens en Europe (1841). He
died in Dorchester, Mass., March 11, 1848.
WHEATON, Laban, educationist, was born in Norton, Mass., March 13, 1754; son of Dr. George and Elizabeth (Morey) Wheaton ; grandson of Ephraim and Mary (Goffe) Wheaton, and great- grandson of the Rev. Ephraim and Mary (Mason) Wheaton and of William Goffe, the I'egicide. He attended Wrentham academy ; was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1774, A.M., 1777; taught school in Norton a short time ; studied theology with Abiel Leonard of Woodstock, Conn., and was appointed chaplain in the Continental army in 1775. His health prevented his accepting a call to Framingham, Mass. He engaged in an unfortunate mercantile venture, and in 1785 began the study of law, ijractising his profession first in Milton, and after 1788 in Norton. He was a representative in the state legislature seven years and in the llth-14tli congresses, 1809-17; was appointed chief-justice of the court of common pleas in 1810, and of the court of sessions in 1819, and retired from public life in 1827. Mr. Wlieaton was married in 1794, to Fanny, daughter of Samuel Morey of Norton, and they had four children, two of whom lived to a mature age. One of these, his only daugh- ter, died in 1834, and in memory of her he estab- lislied the Wheaton Female seminar}- in Norton, 1835. He died in Norton, Mass., March 23, 1846.
