Charles Stetson Wheeler (December 12, 1863 – April 27, 1923) was an American attorney who served as a Regent of the University of California, and he was a member of the Committee of Fifty working to maintain order after the devastating fire following the earthquake of 1906 in San Francisco.

In 1879 while he was in high school, his sister Gertrude Wheeler was born; she later married John W. Beckman and became a singing teacher, phonologist and inventor.

[1] As an attorney, Wheeler took up residence in San Francisco and continued with the law firm Garber, Boalt and Bishop.

"[14] In the event, Taft won the primary but Roosevelt ran anyway as a third-party candidate, splitting the Republican vote to allow Woodrow Wilson to gain the presidency.

The California delegation put Wheeler on the podium to give a rousing speech for the nomination of California-born candidate Hiram Johnson who had been Roosevelt's running mate in 1912.

[18] A grandson, outdoorsman Charles ("Charley") Stetson Wheeler III, married Kathryn ("Katie") Anita Lillard (1920-2003) of the Irvine family of Southern California.

Katie joined the board of the James Irvine Foundation in 1950, guiding its decisions in making grants for the next half century until her death in 2003.

He called this holding the Wheeler Ranch, and he built a hunting lodge on the river at Horseshoe Bend—its cornerstone laid in 1899.

The lodge was designed by San Francisco architect Willis Polk, and included an 800-book library with room for hundreds of Native American baskets.

Wheeler directed Polk to give the lodge a "fish tower"—a high study with a view, and two windows which were aquariums containing local trout.

[22] Hearst applied the name Wyntoon to her new lease and in 1901 contracted for a magnificent seven-story house to be built, one designed by Bernard Maybeck in the Gothic style of a Rhine River castle.

In 1911, Wheeler invited Austro-Hungarian artist and naturalist Edward Stuhl and his wife Rosie to live on the property; they made extensive studies of plant and animal life in the area, and collected many hundreds of specimens.

Stuhl, an avid mountain climber, published Wildflowers of Mount Shasta from his base at Wheeler Ranch.