{{short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox person | name =Wheeler Hutchison Bristol | birth_date = {{Birth date|1818|1|16}} <ref name=bio/><ref name=age>The 1900 United States census confirms that he was born in January 1818, which would have him 86 years old at death, and not the 87 reported by the New York Times.</ref> | birth_place =Canaan, Columbia County, New York | death_date = {{Death date and age|1904|11|21|1818|1|16}} <ref name=age/> | death_place =DeLand, Volusia County, Florida | title =New York State Treasurer | term =1868–1871 | spouse ={{marriage|Mary Ann Worthington|1848}} | parents =George Bristol<br> Sally Hutchinson }} '''Wheeler Hutchison Bristol''' <ref name=marriage>{{cite web |author=Elaine Rathmann | url=http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/descofnicholasworthington.htm |title=Descendants of Nicholas Worthington |access-date=October 17, 2012 |quote=Mary Ann Worthington, b. June 15, 1827; m. Wheeler Hutchison Bristol}}</ref> (January 16, 1818 Canaan, Columbia County, New York – November 21, 1904 DeLand, Volusia County, Florida) was an American engineer, railroad executive and politician. He was New York State Treasurer from 1868 to 1871.<ref name=obit/>
==Life== He was born on January 16, 1818, in Canaan, Columbia County, New York, to George Bristol and Sally (Hutchinson) Bristol.<ref name=bio>{{cite book |author=LeRoy Wilson Kingman |title=A Memorial History of Tioga County, New York |year=1897 |quote=Wheeler H. Bristol ... He was a native of Columbia county, born January 16, 1818, and after an active business life in other fields came to Tioga with the construction of the Erie railroad. ... |url=http://history.rays-place.com/ny/tioga-ny.htm |archive-date=October 14, 2008 |access-date=July 16, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014001906/http://history.rays-place.com/ny/tioga-ny.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He married Mary Ann Worthington on October 5, 1848.<ref name=marriage/>
In 1886, his residence on the "Glenmary" estate, which he had bought from Nathaniel Parker Willis who had lived from 1837 to 1842 in another house nearby, at Owego was burgled after he had moved to Florida.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mr. Bristol's Residence Robbed |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1886/03/30/103956499.pdf |quote=The residence of the Hon. Wheeler H. Bristol, ex-Treasurer of this State, at Glen Mary, was recently robbed by burglars. The house was closed during the Winter, ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=March 30, 1886 |access-date=October 18, 2012}}</ref>
He died on November 21, 1904, in DeLand, Volusia County, Florida.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Ex-State Treasurer Bristol Dead |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/11/23/100479100.pdf |quote=Word was received here to-day of the death of Wheeler H. Bristol, who was elected State Treasurer of New York in 1867 <!--He was elected in 1867 and his term started in 1868-->... aged eighty-seven years [sic] (Note: If he was born on January 16, 1818, he would have been 86 years old and not 87) |newspaper=New York Times |date=November 23, 1904 |access-date=October 17, 2012}}</ref>
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==Sources== *{{cite book |title=The New York Civil List |author=Franklin Benjamin Hough |year=1858 |publisher=Weed, Parsons and Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkcivillis00houggoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/newyorkcivillis00houggoog/page/n63 37] }} *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1852/09/02/87841257.pdf] Dem. State Convention, in NYT on September 2, 1852 *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1853/09/19/75359269.pdf] His nomination, in NYT on September 19, 1853
{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | title = New York State Treasurer | before = Joseph Howland | after = Thomas Raines | years = 1868–1871}} {{s-end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bristol, Wheeler H}} Category:1818 births Category:1904 deaths Category:New York State Engineers and Surveyors Category:New York state treasurers Category:Florida state senators Category:People from Canaan, New York Category:People from Owego, New York Category:19th-century American business executives in rail transportation Category:19th-century American legislators Category:19th-century Florida politicians Category:19th-century New York (state) politicians