Salmon Wheaton (c. 1782–1844)
Salmon Wheaton, doctor of divinity, was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Educated at Yale, he was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1808. For thirty years (1810–40) he served as rector of Trinity Church in Newport, Rhode Island. He then moved to Johnstown, New York, where he was rector of St. John's Church. Wheaton had at least one daughter with Ann Dehon (c. 1782–1855, m. 1812). He died in Johnstown on 24 August 1844.
Journal of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (1817), 7.
George Champlin Mason, Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island, 1698–1821 (Newport, RI: George C. Mason, 1890), Volume I, 277–83.
Alexander Brown, The Cabells and Their Kin: A Memorial Volume of History, Biography, and Genealogy (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895), 418.
Rhode-Island American, 12 June 1821, page 2, column 5 (America’s Historical Newspapers).
Providence Gazette, 15 June 1811, page 3, columns 1–2 (America’s Historical Newspapers).
Herald of the Times (Newport, RI), 5 September 1844, page 3, column 4 (Newspapers.com).
Rev Salmon Wheaton in Rhode Island, U.S., Vital Extracts, 1636–1899 (Ancestry.com).
Rev Salmon Wheaton at Find a Grave.