Evening star., 1924-04-06
IWheelers Are Active
In Life of Washington;
] Home in Chevy Chase
Montana Senator $. Wife
Finds Time From Home
i: Duties to Represent State
Socially.

Senator and Mrs. Wheeler OF Mon
home in Butte last autumn in time to
place their five children in schools
here, and also TO obtain n home
which might for the time being, rec
oncile them to their exile from the
beautiful surroundings in the Rocky
Mountain region ;. Butte is quite a
metropolis as cities. go in the vast
northwest. and is fast climbing to
100000 inhabitants. < .n 3
The center of one of the largest
mineral deposit areas in this country
and the chief seat OF the Anaconda
Copper Company, a, glamour of ro-
( nance clusters about its very name,
and if its Inhabitants habitually Gined
, of gold and silver plates and its
{, womankind wore diamond tiaras in
, lieu of boudoir- caps, no one would
/ feel surprised.
Mrs. Wheeler who is supe eriat lively
a home lover, feels that Butte has a
high standard OF living, and it's house
holders get full value in civic actiV-
! tiles for their taxes and expended en-
+ ergieS. Its markets, abound in whole
! some fresh vegetables and fruits. and
! the dealer who habitHally serves i'm
perfect specimens soon loses his pa
I Lronage.
I Senator Wheeler. who is now so
\ ardently a citizen of Montana, is a
son of the Old Bay State, and his ma
tive town is Hudson. He comes of ex-
, cellent New England stock, and in his
!. own given names, Burton and Ken
4 dali, two eminent ancestors are hon
7 ored. His father was Asa Leonard
!. Wheeler. of a well established Mas
. Sachusetts family, but his mother,
(, Mary Elizabeth Tyler, was from the
!. south. Young Wheeler did not feel
:. the lure of travel until he had been
Z graduated with high honors from the
!, Hudson High School in 1900. Then he
{ definitely resolved to seek a wider
!. field than New England offered, and
!. his college studies were made in Ann
j Arbor, at the State University of
i Michigan. He studied law there and
then selected Butte as the scene of
: his legal career, hanging out his
-=shingle in that frontier town in 1905,
when il was at the height of its
prosperity as the result of the activ-
-fties of former Senator William A.
CLARK and the late Marcus Daily in
.Lfhe copper development.
But in his college days Mr.. Wheeler
had become attached to a school
'chum, Miss Lula NJ White OF Albany.
Jll., and when there was the barest
trace of Il smile from fortune he
.hastened To that small town and
claimed his bride This was in 1907,
and there are now five children, and,
though the senator from Montana is
deemed rather dynamic in public af-
fairs, he is the gentleSt and most
amiable of' fathers and spouseS In
his part of the world q mans domes-
tic rela still form a major factor
). in his political success, and the live
1ieSt public interest and regard is the
portion of one who is rearing fine
group of children to carry on the
reputation of the state.
. Mrs. Wheeler naturally has busy
time with a home and five children
to care for, and the irregular hours
kept by members of senatorial in
yestigating committees to add to the
routine trials of home keeping about
the Capital. She manages to perform
many duties very well in the course
of day, a characteristic of western
folk of both sexes She is a member
OF the Senate Women's Luncheon
Club and of the Congressional Club,
and has taken up the social end for
which for. some years has been some
what neglected. Senator Walsh is a
widower, and his only daughter, Mrs.
Emmett Gudgsr, married to a naval
officer, though now in Washington, is
only here at irregular intervals.
Though Senator and Mrs. Wheeler
count their official residence in Wash
ington from last autumn, both were
mere IOr several weeks IN 1919, dt tne
time President Wilson appointed Mr..
wheeler United States attorney for
The District of Montana, a position
which he held until he resigned TO
become one of it's senators. In Butte,
1.-THE Wheelers are5 prominent mem
brs of the Methoaist Church, and
T. t"~nlar IN attendance at a
suburban church of the same denomi-
Ii .uefr home in Jocelyn
Street, Chevy Chase. Both Senator
q VNeelcr are fond of music.
and are enjoying, all. that is good