Tuolumne County Biographies

C. C. WHEELER

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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The present popular and genial proprietor of the Windsor House, corner of Ninth 
and Washington streets, Oakland, was an inhabitant of Tuolumne in former years. 
He was born in Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, in 1834, but was reared in 
Norridgewock, in that State. His life has been mainly spent in mining and 
business pursuits in Cal�ifornia and Australia, he having spent three years in 
the search for gold in the latter country, and, after much travel, locating and 
mining at Table Mountain, near Shaw�s Flat. One year of farming on Johnson�s 
ranch succeeded to the four years spent at the Flat, and then Mr. W., hav�ing in 
the meantime married, proceeded to Oakland, and established the first of the 
express lines connecting San Francisco with the towns (then small) on the 
opposite side of the Bay. Merchandising at Placerville, Solano County, and 
similar pursuits at Healdsburg, Sonoma County, suc�ceeded to the express 
business, and finally, in the Centen�nial year, he returned to Oakland, and 
opened the excellent and convenient hotel which he now conducts.
Mr. Wheeler married Miss Angeline G. Stetson, in Co�lumbia, during his residence 
in Tuolumne. The officiating clergyman, Mr. L. Hamilton, was called upon twenty 
years later to officiate at the china wedding of the married couple, all the 
parties residing in Oakland.  This pleasant circumstance has received a tinge of 
melancholy from the recent death of Mr. Hamilton.
Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler have two children.

�A History of Tuolumne County, California� B.F. Alley, 1882. Pg. 386-387.