Complex sentence: Wheeler earned a bachelor's degree at Columbian College (now George Washington University), read law under John Louis Taylor, was admitted to the bar in 1827, and the following year received a master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Split into simpler sentences: Wheeler earned a bachelor's degree at Columbian College (now George Washington University). The following year he continued his studies and received a master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.