Charles Stetson Wheeler
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| Born |
December 12, 1863 Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Died | April 27, 1923 (aged 59) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Hastings College of the Law |
| Occupation | Attorney, Regent of the University of California |
Charles Stetson Wheeler (December 12, 1863 – April 27, 1923) was an American attorney, working in Northern California. He served as a Regent of the University of California, and was a member of the Committee of Fifty working to maintain order after the devastating fire following the earthquake of 1906 in San Francisco. Wheeler was active in Republican Party politics.
Wheeler was born in Oakland, California, on December 12, 1863. His parents were Charles C. Wheeler from Norridgewock, Maine, and the former Angelina (or Angeline) Stetson from Kingston, Massachusetts. The parents were married in the gold rush town of Columbia, California, on April 17, 1859. Wheeler was raised in Oakland and attended public schools. In 1879 while he was in high school, his sister Gertrude Wheeler was born; she later married John W. Beckman and became a singing teacher, phonologist and inventor. Wheeler was raised alongside a brother who never sought higher education. In 1884, Wheeler graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of California, and began working in Oakland in the law office of John Henry Boalt. Concurrently, he studied advanced law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and graduated in 1886, the same year he advanced to the bar.
As an attorney, Wheeler took up residence in San Francisco and continued with the law firm Garber, Boalt and Bishop. In 1892, Wheeler was made partner. After the deaths of Boalt and Judge John R. Garber, the firm was reconstituted as Bishop, Wheeler and Hoefler. In 1904, Wheeler headed his own firm, with no partners. In 1912 he took on a partner: attorney John F. Bowie, some fifteen years younger. By 1918, Wheeler worked occasionally with his son, Charles S. Wheeler Jr, as co-counsel. Wheeler's clients included the First National Bank, the Bank of British North America, the Barron Estate Co., and the First Federal Trust Co. of San Francisco. He specialized in probate law, mining claims, corporate law and real estate law; the office was on 14 Montgomery Street. From 1920 to 1923, Wheeler partnered with his son.
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