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George Montague Wheeler (October 9, 1842 – May 3, 1905) was an American pioneering explorer and cartographer and the leader of the Wheeler Survey, one of the major geographical surveys of the western United States in the late 19th century. Wheeler was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of John
George Huber Wheeler (1881–1957), United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient; George Campbell Wheeler (1880–1938), recipient of the Victoria Cross; George W. Wheeler (1860–1932), lawyer, judge, and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut; George William Wheeler (1815–1878), British socialist activist; George C ...
[1] Supervised by First Lieutenant (later Captain) George Montague Wheeler, the Wheeler Survey documented and mapped the United States west of the 100th meridian. The survey team included Lieutenant Montgomery M. Macomb, [2] plus the paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Charles Abiathar White [3] as well as the astronomer Miles Rock. [4]
George Edward Wheeler (December 14, 1914 – July 8, 1990) was an American gymnast. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and competed in eight events at the 1936 Summer Olympics .
George Wheeler Schofield (September 20, 1833 – December 17, 1882) was an American Union brevet brigadier general during the period of the American Civil War. He received his appointment as brevet brigadier general dated to January 26, 1865.
George Shaw Wheeler (May 22, 1908 – October 18, 1997) (known also as George S. Wheeler) was an American economist and advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, best known for being the first American to defect over the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia in November 1947.
George Louis Wheeler (born George Louis Heroux, July 30, 1869 – March 21, 1946) [1] was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in parts of four major-league seasons, from 1896 to 1899, in the National League for the Philadelphia Phillies .
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 educated at the Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and at Yale (class of 1881) and Yale Law School (class of 1883). He ...