William Adolphus Wheeler (November 14, 1833 – October 28, 1874) was an American lexicographer, bibliographer and librarian.
[2][1] To the appendix of this work Wheeler contributed a table entitled "Pronunciation of the Names of Distinguished Men of Modern Times".
[2] He was employed as general reviser of the edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published in 1864, and contributed to it an "Explanatory and Pronouncing Vocabulary of the Names of Noted Fictitious Persons and Places", which was enlarged and published separately (Boston and London, 1865).
Earlier he had been involved in a public dispute regarding the identity of the real Mother Goose.
[3] He left unfinished an index to the principal works of ancient and modern literature, to be entitled Who Wrote It?