CLASS OF 1840

Augustus Strong Wheeler of the law firm of Hutchins and Wheeler, one of the best.known members of the bar of Boston, died April 13, at his home in Wayland. He was born at Wayland, Aug. 7, 1820. While he was a boy his family removed to Orford,N. H., and to this latter place Mr. Wheeler became greatly attached. At the time of his death he was the possessor of a large estate there. He prepared for college at Haverhill Academy, N. H., and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1840. While at the academy Mr. Wheeler met Henry Clinton Hutchins, and from this association there grew a friendship which continued through the remainder of their lives. The two were room-mates at school and college, and in Boston until they were married, and then for many years lived in houses side by side. Both were admitted to the bar in 1844. After Mr. Wheeler had been at the Harvard Law School two years he entered the office of Sidney Bartlett. Later Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Hutchins formed a business partnership which became one of the most noted and largest law firms in the state. "For twenty years Mr. Wheeler was regarded," said Judge Richardson, "as one of the best probate lawyers, and in the drafting of wills and complicated instruments and in the settlement of estates and lawsuits he was most successful.