{"id":611,"date":"2018-07-18T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/?p=611"},"modified":"2018-07-18T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:22:52","slug":"history-sumner-a-wheeler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/2018\/07\/18\/history-sumner-a-wheeler\/","title":{"rendered":"History: Sumner A. Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wheelers brewed small beer on Silver Street in Waterville from 1875 until 1883. Sumner A. Wheeler, Sr. was born in about 1801 in Massachusetts. Sumner Jr. was born in about 1834 in Maine. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like most brewers of the time, the Wheelers were jacks of many trades. Census records track Senior\u2019s occupations from being a farmer (1850), to a blacksmith (1860), to a \u201cbeer maker\u201d (1870), to a gunsmith (1880). \u00a0Junior was a farmer (1860 and 1870), an \u201cengine builder\u201d (1870), and a carpenter (1880). In the early 1900s, he is listed as a \u201cmilkman\u201d in city directories. The two lived together for much of their lives with the rest of their families: by 1880, Junior and his wife, Eliza, had four kids, and Senior was a widower.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-990\" style=\"width: 905px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/07\/Wheeler-Caldwell-1879.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-990 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/07\/Wheeler-Caldwell-1879.png\" alt=\"Wheeler house on Silver Street in Waterville\" width=\"905\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/07\/Wheeler-Caldwell-1879.png 905w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/07\/Wheeler-Caldwell-1879-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/files\/2018\/07\/Wheeler-Caldwell-1879-768x439.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumner A. Wheeler, Sr. brewed in Waterville from 1875 to 1883. His house is visible here furthest south (left on the map) on Silver. Caldwell &amp; Halfpenny, Atlas of Kennebec County, Me., 1879. Ancestry.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the precise location of the Wheeler brewhouse on the<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/maine-beer-map\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maine Beer Map<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-611\" data-postid=\"611\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-611 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_ab93800 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full   tb_s2jo820 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module box -->\n<div  class=\"module module-box tb_mn5i838 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"module-box-content ui  tb_default_color\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tb_text_wrap\"><p>Sources:<\/p><p>Will Anderson, <em>The Great State of Maine Beer Book<\/em> (Portland: Anderson &amp; Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996) 32.<\/p><p>Maine Business Directory, 1876<\/p><p>U. S. Census, 1880<\/p><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module box -->\n                    <\/div><!-- .tb-column-inner -->\n                            <\/div><!-- .module_column -->\n            \t    <\/div><!-- .row_inner -->\n\t<\/div><!-- .module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wheelers brewed small beer on Silver Street in Waterville from 1875 until 1883. Sumner A. Wheeler, Sr. was born in about 1801 in Massachusetts. Sumner Jr. was born in about 1834 in Maine. Like most brewers of the time, the Wheelers were jacks of many trades. Census records track Senior\u2019s occupations from being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7939,"featured_media":990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[921],"tags":[292],"builder_content":"<p>Sources:<\/p><p>Will Anderson, <em>The Great State of Maine Beer Book<\/em> (Portland: Anderson &amp; Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996) 32.<\/p><p>Maine Business Directory, 1876<\/p><p>U. S. 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