WHEAT, John Thomas, clergyman, born in Washington, D. C., 15 November, 1800; died in Salisbury, North Carolina, 2 February. 1888. He was educated at Asbury college, Baltimore, and established a private school in Washington. Having devoted himself to the study of theology, he was ordained deacon in Alexandria, and in the following year at Baltimore he was made a priest. He was instrumental in founding an Episcopal church at Marietta, Ohio, afterward went to North Carolina, and subsequently to Tennessee, and for twenty years labored in Rash-ville and Memphis. He was also for a time in Arkansas. He held various positions of influence in the annual conventions of the church, and in 1845 was given the degree of D. D. by the University of Nashville. He was an intimate friend of Henry Clay. His book on "Preparation for the Holy Communion" (New York, 1860) won a high reputation in the religious world.