WHEELER, David Hilton, clergyman, born in Ithaca, New York, 19 November, 1829. He was graduated at Rock River theological seminary, Mount Morris, Illinois, in 1851, was professor of ancient languages in Cornell college, Iowa, in 1853-'5, and assumed the chair of Greek in 1857, which he held till 1861. He edited the "Carroll County Republican " in 1855-'7, and at the same time was county superintendent of public schools. In 1861-'6 he was United States consul at Geneva, Switzerland. He was professor of English literature in Northwestern university in 1867-'75, edited the "Methodist," in New York city, for the subsequent seven years, and became president of Alleghany college, Pennsylvania, in 1883, holding office till 1887. Cornell college gave him the degree of D.D. in 1867, and Northwestern university that of LL. D. in 1881. He has written for publication since 1855, is the author of " Brigandage in South Italy" (2 vols., London, 1864), and "By-Ways of Literature" (New York, 1883), and has translated, from the Italian, Celesia's" Conspiracy of Fieschi" (1866).