Daniel Wheeler

Daniel Wheeler (1771–1840) was a Quaker.

Biography
Daniel Wheeler, British Quaker, minister, teacher and missionary in Russia and the South Pacific.


 * 1771 Born 27 November 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 22 June 1818 moved 20 members of his family and others to his farm at Shoosharry, Russia (Shushari)
 * 1818 - 1828, Ohkta and Shoosharry farms, 3000 acre of swamp drained and became model farms.
 * 1828 - 1831 Visited England: made missionary voyage in Polynesia and Australasia
 * 1831 Returned to Shoosharry (Shushari, Russia) 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 12 June 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 (Вилеровский переулок; 59.811636, 30.360407).