Leonard Hemenway Wheeler (1811-1872) was an early missionary to the Ojibwa Indians at Madeline Island, Wisconsin. The Wheeler family also founded, in 1845, and operated the Indian boarding school at Odanah, Wisconsin. They later moved to Beloit, Wisconsin, where they became prominent in religious and manufacturing circles.
Leonard Wheeler and his wife Harriet Wood Wheeler (1816-1894), had at least five children: Leonard Jr. (1843-?), a Congregational clergyman; Julia (1845-1873), a teacher; William H. (1847-1937), an engineer, industrialist, and Civil War veteran; Charles Eugene (1856-1941); and Harriet (1859-?), a teacher and fiction writer.
