Daniel Wheeler (missionary)
Daniel Wheeler was a Quaker.Biography
Daniel Wheeler, British Quaker, minister, teacher and missionary in Russia and the South Pacific.
- 1771 Born November 27, 1771 to William and Sarah Wheeler in London, England
- 1777 His father William Wheeler dies.
- 1783 Midshipman, Royal Navy. Mother Sarah Wheeler passes away.
- 1781 -1796 Served in army
- 1790 Joined Quakers
- 1796 Settled in Handsworth Woodhouse near Sheffield, began in seed trade
- 1798 Received as a member of the Quakers
- 1809 Moved to a country farm with sister's family
- 1816 Accepted as Quaker minister
- 1817 Met with Russian Czar Alexander I and became manager of imperial farms at Ohkta near St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1818 June 22, 1818 moved 20 members of his family and others to his farm at Shoosharry, Russia
- 1818 - 1828, Ohkta and Shoosharry farms, of swamp drained and became model farms.
- 1828 - 1831 Visited England: made missionary voyage in Polynesia and Australasia
- 1831 Returned to Shoosharry where 500 employees worked under supervision of his son William.
- 1833 - departs London for 'voyage of concern' to Australia and the Pacific
- 1835 - visits Society Islands
- 1836 - visits Hawaiian Islands
- 1838 - returns to London from Pacific voyage
- 1839 - Missionary tour in North America
- 1839 - Book edition of journal and letters from the Pacific published in London
- 1840 Died June 12, 1840 in New York after illness during the sea voyage to America. Buried in Friend's cemetery on Orchard St. New York
- 1835 - 1839 Letters Journals published
- 1842 Memoirs published by his son
- 2014 - Daniel Wheeler's name is given to an alley in Shushary, a suburb in the South of St. Petersburg, Russia.
