[3] At the age of six years, she came with her parents to the United States and settled in Binghamton, New York, where her childhood and youth were spent.

He was the author of The Memory of the Just, Methodism and the Temperance Reformation, Rays of Light in the Valley of Sorrow, Deaconesses: Ancient and Modern, and other works.

By request of Prof. Sweeney, who composed the music, she wrote the two soldiers' decoration hymns, "Peacefully Rest" and "Scatter Love's Beautiful Garlands Above Them.

[4] Wheeler served as president of the Philadelphia Society of the Methodist Episcopal churches in Pennsylvania and Delaware.

She addressed large audiences in the open air in such summer resorts as Thousand Islands Park and Ocean Grove.

In 1906 she was appointed president of the Board of Managers of the Home for the Aged, located in Ocean Grove, New Jersey.