John Emory Wheeler, student 1855-1856

Wheeler attended Princeton Theological Seminary and Yale University after leaving R-MC. He was a Presbyterian preacher in Wytheville, VA prior to the war, was married in Louisiana in 1862 and was ordained in Mississippi in 1864. He was commissioned chaplain of the 31st LA Infantry on April 10, 1863 and was assigned as the post chaplain at Enterprise, MS. A letter dated December 12, 1863 indicates he did not leave Enterprise to report to the 31st LA indicating it was "well nigh impossible for me to join it." He resigned June 17, 1864.

After the war, he taught at Oakland College in MS and also preached. He then was a pastor in Nashville, TN, in Missouri, in Sacramento and San Francisco, CA, and in Baltimore. He died November 22, 1905 in Harrisonville, MD and is buried in Druid Ridge Cemetery in Baltimore County, MD.