MANDAN Historical Society

Working to Preserve & Promote Mandan's Heritage since 2004

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Ag Stn Centennial

History Harvest

TR-Coe Exhibit

WWII Exhibit

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Area History

Book: "Mantani"

The 1880s

Mandan Rodeo / Fair

School System History

The 1890s

The 1900s

1901 Pan Am Expo

1903 TR Visit to NDak

The 1910s

1910 Spring Flood

1911 Fair & Airplane Demo

1912 TR Whistle-Stop

The 1920s

Prohibition in Mandan

Mail Order Kit Homes

The 1930s

FDR Visit August 1936

The 1940s

The 1950s

1958 Lincoln Stamp FDC

Custer Drama / Trail West

The 1960s

The 1970s

The 1980s

The 1990s

1st of the 21st

2010-Present

Area Landmarks

Cary Bldg - Mandan Drug

CCC Camp Chimney

Christ the King Church

Collins Av Civic Bldg

First Lutheran Church

First National Bank Bldg

First Presbyterian Church

Great Plains Academy

Great Plains Expermt Stn

Lewis & Clark Hotel

Mandan Hill

Mandan Theatre

MV Produce Warehouse

Methodist Church

NP Beanery

NP "Colonial" RR Depot

NPRR Freighthouse

NP Rail High Bridge

Roughrider Statue

St Joseph Church

WWar Memorial Bldg

Youth Correctional Center

Gone Forever

Central School

Collins Ave Courthouse

Cummins Building

Deaconess Hospital

Eielson Field

Emerson Inst/Opera House

First St Federal Building

Havana Club

Hotel Nigey

InterOcean Hotel

Liberty Memorial Bridge

Mandan Creamery & Produce

Mandan Flour Mill

Merchants Hotel

NP "Queen Anne" Depot

Original Passenger Depot

Palace Theatre

Peoples' Hotel

Rock Haven

Topic Theatre

Young's Tavern

Heritage Homes

Altnow-Smith Home

Dunlap-Harris Home

Ellis-Uden Home

Freeburg-Esser Home

Lyon-Weigel Home

McGillic Home

Olson-Brick Home

Parkins-Cooley Home

Stutsman-Wyatt Home

Swanson-Reichman Home

Welch-Ness Home

Endowment Fund

Genealogy Links

Biographies A-C

J D Allen

Franklin Anders

Richard Baron

James Bellows

George Bingenheimer

Margaret Bingenheimer

Philip Blumenthal

Elijah Boley

Frank Briggs

Leo Broderick

William Broderick

Frank Bunting

Lyman Cary

James Clark

Henry Coe

Viola Boley Coe

Daniel Collins

Elizabeth Custer

George Custer

Biographies D-L

Alice Dahners

Henry Dahners

C E V (Charles) Draper

Esther Davis

Tony Dean

Joseph Devine

Ronald Erhardt

John Forbes

Palma Fristad

Gilbert Furness

Aloysius Galowitsch

Frederic Gerard

Zalmon Gilbert

Charles Grantier

James Hanley Jr

James Hanley Sr

Mary Harris

C Edgar Haupt

Michael Lang

William Langer

Albert Lanterman

William Lanterman

Richard Longfellow

Rolland Lutz

Hiram Lyon

Biographies M-R

George Marback

Gary Miller

Lee Mohr

Margaret Naylor

John Newton

Anton Ness

John Osterhouse

George Peoples

Arthur Peterson

Nels Romer

Hoy Russell

Walton Russell

Antonie Rybnicek

Ervin Rybnicek

Hynek Rybnicek

Biographies S-Z

Margaret Schaaf

George Shafer

Benjamin Shaw

William Simpson

Anna Knox Stark

Mary Stark

Benjamin Stephenson

J O Sullivan

John Sullivan

Era Bell Thompson

Andrew E Thorberg

Ida Thorberg

C L Timmerman

George Toman

Earle Tostevin

Edwin A Tostevin Sr

Edwin D Tostevin Jr

Walter Tostevin

Felix Vinatieri

A B Welch

Levon West

Frank Wetzstein

Harry Wheeler

Philomena Yunck

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Harry Andrew Wheeler (1908-2007)
Harry Andrew Wheeler Was born on August 17, 1908 in Red Wing, Minnesota, the son of Harry and Louisa (Seigler) Wheeler.  When Harry was 2, his family moved to Rochester, where he attended grade school, high school and junior college.  He then went to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he received his medical degree.  He took his first job in Richardton, ND on March 15, 1933.

That summer, he married Avanelle Britzius, a Rochester, MN native in a ceremony held at the bride's parents home.  Avanelle was also a graduate of the University of Minnesota and had been the libriarian for the preivous seven years at Hamlin University in St. Paul.

They moved to Mandan in July 1933 where "Doc" Wheeler practiced as an obstetrician/pediatrician for more than 50 years, delivering over 7,000 babies.  After he closed his medical practice in 1986, he continued to service as Morton County coroner, a position he held for more than 30 years.

"Doc" Wheeler was a man with many varied talents and interests.  He was an avid fisherman and hunter and simply loved being outdoors.  Doc was active in the Izaak Walton League and was intrumental in the introduction of wild turkey to North Dakota.  He enjoyed hunting with a bow and arrow and successfully worked to get bow hunting legalized in the state.  In 2001, he was inducted into the North Dakota Bow Hunters Assocation Hall of Fame.

Dr. Wheeler was alway an ardent support of Mandan and an active member of the Mandan Rotary Club for more than 60 years.  Well known throughout Mandan and Morton County, he always had a ready response when people would call out to him "Hi Doc, how are you doing?"

Since Doc began his practice during the height of the depression when times were tough, rural residents frequently paid in poultry or farm goods.  He frequently made allowance for those who couldn't pay the usual fee.  Doc always maintained his own office, preferring not to be in a larger clinic setting. 

He is survived by his wife Ananelle: his son-in-law Don Zimmerman of Waite Park Minnesota, his granddaughter Julie Zimmerman (Robert Olson) of Duluth, and a great-grandson, Andre Jakob Olson.  His parents, his daughter Susan Zimmer, two sisters Alice and Mariy Louise and a brother-in-law Charles Britzius preceded him in death.

He died on April 25, 2007 and is buried in Union Cemetery in Mandan.

The MHSoc's museum and office is located at 3827 30th Avenue NW; PO Box 1001; Mandan, ND 58554
Contact us at info@mandanhistory.org


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