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11 unusual facts about Wheaton


Enduring Valor: Gettysburg in Miniature

Inspired by the scenarios in the classic board game Terrible Swift Sword, Volume 1 of Enduring Valor was first published in 2002 by Marek/Janci Design of Wheaton, Illinois, and debuted at the Historicon gaming convention.

Hudson Armerding

Hudson Taylor Armerding (June 21, 1918 – December 1, 2009) was President of Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, from 1965 to 1982.

Kendall Ciesemier

Kendall Ciesemier is an American youth volunteer from Wheaton, Illinois and a student at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Minnesota State Highway 117

Minnesota State Highway 117 is a short highway in west central Minnesota, which runs from Roberts County Road 19 at the South Dakota state line and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 27 near Wheaton.

Highway 117 serves as a short east–west route between Lake Traverse at the Minnesota / South Dakota state line and the city of Wheaton.

Minnesota State Highway 27

State Highway 27 serves as an east–west route between Browns Valley, Wheaton, Alexandria, Long Prairie, Little Falls, Mille Lacs Lake, and Moose Lake.

Prentice Marshall

In 1959, Marshall, then a resident of Wheaton, Illinois, ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for state's attorney in DuPage County, a Republican stronghold.

The Kissing Hand

On a train ride in Wheaton, Maryland, Penn witnessed a ritual in which a mother raccoon placed its nose on a baby raccoon's paw, and then the baby raccoon placed its paw on its own face.

Wheaton, Maryland

Using the call sign W3XK, Charles Francis Jenkins began broadcasting from his home at the corner of Windham Lane and Georgia Ave.

Wheaton, Missouri

Wheaton is a city in Wheaton Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States.

Wheaton, Wisconsin

The land in this Township East of Chippewa Rive is very Sandy producing only Yellow & Pitch(?) Pine Timber except near the Swamps where White Pine, Birch & Elm is found.


Anne Williams Wheaton

On May 2, 1957, in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's office, Wheaton was sworn in as Associate Press Secretary at the White House.

Bibletone Records

The company changed ownership several times during the 1950s, operating for a time in Montrose, Pennsylvania and also in Wheaton, Illinois.

Blanchard Hall

Blanchard Hall is a limestone building on the campus of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.

Charismatic Episcopal Church timeline

Led by Dr. Robert E. Webber (Assoc. Professor of Theology at Wheaton University), along with Peter E. Gillquist, Thomas Howard, Richard Holt, Donald Bloesch, Jan Dennis, Lane Dennis, and Victor Oliver, the Conference discusses the need for evangelical Christians to rediscover and re-attach to the Church's historic roots.

Charles A. Blanchard

Named after the King of Sardinia, Charles Albert Blanchard was ten years old when his father left the Galesburg, Illinois area to assume the presidency of the Illinois Institute, which was soon to become Wheaton College.

Christians for Biblical Equality

Beginning in 1989, CBE has presented international conferences—three-day events consisting of plenary sessions and workshops in such U.S. cities such as St. Paul, Minnesota, Winter Park, Colorado, Wheaton, Illinois, San Diego, California, Orlando, Florida, Dallas, Texas Portland, Oregon and Denver, Colorado, Toronto, Canada, and St. Louis, Missouri.

Culligan

By 1938, the first Culligan franchised dealership opened in Wheaton, Illinois, followed by another in Hagerstown, Maryland.

David Wheaton

Wheaton turned professional in 1988 and won his first top-level singles title in 1990 at Kiawah Island, South Carolina.

Duane Litfin

Litfin was succeeded as president on July 1, 2010 by Philip Ryken, formerly senior pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and 1988 graduate of Wheaton.

Duncan Curry

In 1905, Al Spalding wrote in his Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide that "the original Knickerbocker Club should be honored and remembered as the founders of our national game." In particular, he cited 11 original Knickerbockers as deserving of the honor, including Curry, Doc Adams, Alexander Cartwright, E. R. Dupignac, William Wheaton and William H. Tucker.

Edward Alexander Walker

He was an active member of First Methodist Church, the Army and Navy Legion of Valor, the Marine Corp League, Wheaton Camp, United Spanish War Veterans of San Jose and Major Randolph T. Zane Post 344, Veterans of Foreign Wars until his death.

Edward Breathitte Sellers

Born and reared in slavery, somehow prior to his matriculating at Wheaton College, he moved to Illinois and listed Shawneetown, Illinois as his home.

In the 1862 Wheaton College Catalog, he is shown to have entered the Collegiate program and is listed as a Freshman.

Elements of International Law

At the instance of Anson Burlingame, U.S. minister to China, Wheaton's book was translated into Chinese and published at the expense of the imperial government (4 vols., Pekin, 1865).

Emily Wheaton

Emily Wheaton (born London, 5 December 1989) is a British/Australian actress who played Sharon "Shazza" Cox in the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 2005.

Frank Wheaton

The Wheaton, Maryland, section of the Wheaton/Glenmont division of the unincorporated township of Silver Spring, Maryland, just northwest of Washington, D.C., is named for him, as is the Wheaton High School, a school in the Down County Consortium of the Montgomery County Public School system of Montgomery County, Maryland.

Garbage Pail Kids

Packs contained randomly inserted chase cards including lenticular Loco Motion, authentic Printing Plates, four levels of Parallels, and hand-drawn Artist Sketches by pop-culture artists including Layron DeJarnette, Brent Engstrom, Dave Gross, Mark Pingitore, Joe Simko, Colin Walton, Fred Wheaton, Jeff Zapata, and veteran GPK artists Tom Bunk and Jay Lynch.

Gordon Clark

Additionally, Ronald Nash edited a Festschrift The Philosophy of Gordon H. Clark (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1968), which presented a summary of Clark's thought (viz., the Wheaton lectures mentioned above), critiques by several authors, and rejoinders by Clark.

H. Evan Runner

He was a graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (where he was deeply influenced by the thought of Professor Cornelius Van Til), and The Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Harvey Chrouser

After a few years of starting at Wheaton, he took a break to serve in the United States Navy as a Lieutenant Commander under George Halas.

J. B. Matthews

In 1964, with his health in decline, Matthews left the employ of the Hearst organization and sold a substantial part of his files to the Church League of America based in Wheaton, Illinois, before passing to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

John W. North

When John North suffered financial failure in the Panic of 1857, his business interests were purchased in 1859 by his friend, Charles Augustus Wheaton, who had moved to Northfield from Syracuse on the advice of the Norths after the death of Wheaton's first wife.

Joseph Wheaton

Joseph Wheaton was an elected United States House of Representatives officer from 1789 to 1809.

Laban Wheaton

Wheaton was elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1817).

OneWheaton

On April 29, 2011, the day that the letter was distributed, Wheaton College President Philip Ryken responded to the letter by sending an internal email to the students, faculty, and staff of the college.

Sam Storms

In 2000, he left Kansas City to become a visiting associate professor at Wheaton College, in Wheaton, Illinois.

Statesville Christian School

The students gained admission to some of the region’s most selective colleges including Davidson College, Wake Forest University, UNC-Chapel Hill, The Citadel, Cedarville University, Wheaton University, North Carolina State, Baylor University and a number of other outstanding colleges and universities, like Liberty University and Texas Christian University.

Talbot School of Theology

R. Kent Hughes - Editor and contributor, Preaching the Word commentary series, Senior Pastor Emeritus, College Church, Wheaton, Illinois

The Pennington School

Recent Pennington track participants have gone on to compete at the Division I and Division III level at The University of Texas, Lafayette, West Point, McDaniel, St. Lawrence, Wheaton, TCNJ, and Dickinson.

Wheaton High School

The school is named for the Wheaton area, which is in turn named for Frank Wheaton (1833-1903), a career officer in the Union Army who rose to the rank of major-general while serving before, during, and after the Civil War.

Wheaton Science Products

Wheaton Science Products is a subsidiary of Alcan based in Millville, New Jersey in the United States.