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(b) = born    (d) = died    ( f ) = father    (m) = mother    (w) wed     

f. David Wheeler
m. Polly Chase
 

Alanson was 10 years old when his family moved from Richfield, NY, to the Wardwell Settlement, Ellisburg Township, Jefferson  County, NY. There he met his wife Electa, and seven of their eight children were born there.

Alanson Wheeler and his wife Electa owned property adjacent to this father in Wardwell Settlement, Ellisburg Township, Jefferson County, New York.

In 1846 at the age of 33, Alanson was a early pioneer of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, at which time he was given a Patent Deed to clear and farm 80 acres of land, three miles south of Campbellsport, Wisconsin.  Alanson helped organize the city of Ashford which in now Campbellsport.  Later, he was elected Ashford’s City Assessor.

In 1867 at the age of 64, Alanson and Electa Wheeler moved to Dodge County, Minnesota.  Alanson bought 80 acres of land from John Rions in Concord Township, one mile southwest of the village of Concord, for which he paid fourteen hundred dollars.  After his son David was married in 1875, Alanson and Electa bought a house in Concord on the corner of Second and Park Street. 

Alanson was living with his daughter Cordolia Josephine Wilcox in 1890 at the time of his death.  Josephine C. and her husband Charles lived just south of the village of Concord.

Alanson and his wife Electa are buried in the Concord Cemetery in Concord, Dodge County, Minnesota.