Dora V. Wheelock (née, Palmer; August 26, 1847 – February 3, 1923) was an American activist and writer involved in the temperance movement.

Pedora (nickname, "Dora") Velina Palmer was born in Calais, Vermont, August 26, 1847.

Her father, a Christian minister,[3] died when she was three years old, leaving a family of small children, of whom she was the youngest.

[4][5] On July 20, 1865, in Berlin, Wisconsin, she married Oren Newell Wheelock (1841–1930),[1][6][7] a merchant of that city, who became a State Banker.

They lived first in Iowa, and then in Wisconsin, till 1873, when they settled in Beatrice, Nebraska, where Oren went on to become mayor.

[4] In 1906, after having served as president of the Nebraska state WCTU for the past five years, she removed to Loveland, Colorado.