Talk:Laban Wheaton

Latest comment: 1 year ago by AvidReader11663 in topic Wheaton Colleges and the Wheaton family

Children category

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Under children, only his son is listed. I added his daughter’s name into the text but couldn’t add it under the Children heading. Can this be fixed? Brittain scholar (talk) 15:49, 29 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Wheaton Colleges and the Wheaton family

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According to findagrave.com, Laban Wheaton was the great-grandson of Rev. Ephraim Wheaton of Rehoboth, MA (1659-1734)

Warren L. Wheaton, namesake of the Wheaton College in Illinois, was the third great-grandson of the same Rev. Ephraim Wheaton:

Thus, the two Wheaton Colleges in the U.S. are named for moderately distant cousins in the same family. AvidReader11663 (talk) 20:06, 8 January 2023 (UTC)Reply