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Warren L. Wheaton
Warren L. Wheaton (1812-1903) was an American farmer, teacher, legislator, businessman, philanthropist, and benefactor and namesake of Wheaton College and Wheaton, Illinois.
==Early life==
Warren Lyon Wheaton was born in Pomfret, Connecticut on March 6, 1812 to James and Nancy Lyon Wheaton, both natives of New England. Wheaton's family was descended from Reformed Baptist Puritans from the United Kingdom, who helped found the First Baptist Church in Massachusetts and who were sympathetic to Roger Williams. Wheaton's grandfather, James Wheaton, lived in Providence, Rhode Island and fought in the Revolutionary War. Warren Wheaton was the eldest of thirteen children. He attended the Woodstock Academy in Woodstock, Connecticut and became a school teacher after attending the academy for a-year-and-a-half. He also served in the local militia.〔Green's Connecticut Annual Register and United States Calendar (Samuel Green, 1832) pg. 93〕〔Newton Bateman, Paul Selby, ''Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, Volume 2'', (Munsell Pub. Co., 1913) pg. 1074-1075〕〔Portrait and Biographical Record of Cook and Dupage Counties, Illinois ...(Lake City Publishing Company, 1894), pg. 120〕
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