From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 

Typed by Laurie Birks Dean

p. 495

Wheeler H. BACHMAN.  Prominent among the younger generation of men 
who are promoting the mercantile solidity of Wheeling, is Wheeler H. 
Bachman, of the firm of Isenberg & Bachman.  The descendant of 
forefathers who achieved success in the occupations to which nature 
and inclination called them, he was born in Wheeling March 22, 1870, 
and is a son of William P. Bachman, for many years identified with 
the business activity of this city.
	William P. Bachman was born in Germany in 1838, and like many 
of the youth of the conservative provinces of the Fatherland came to 
an early realization of his surrounding limitations.  Upon coming to 
America he located in Wheeling, and up to the time of his retirement 
from active life, in 1892, was engaged in the retail millinery 
business.  He married Lucy Wheeler, who was born at Dudley, England, 
in 1846.  Mrs. Bachman reared two children, Jessie M., who is the 
wife of George G. Ralston, of Martin's Ferry, Ohio; and Wheeler H.
	Wheeler H. Bachman attended the public schools of Wheeling, and 
received a business college course.  His introduction to the world of 
business was as an employee of the dry goods house of Henry Jacobs & 
Company, with whom he remained for three years.  Subsequently, he was 
for five years with the firm of Jacobs & Isenberg, as confidential 
bookkeeper; in 1895, he established the firm of Isenberg & Bachman, 
with the fortunes of which he has since been identified.  The stock 
carried includes dry goods and specialties, and the trade is entirely 
wholesale.  The upright business methods maintained by this firm give 
it a high standing in the community, and the members are 
representative os the most intelligent progress in the city.  Mr. 
Bachman is a Republican, in national politics, but believes in voting 
for the best man, locally.  He is identified with the Ancient Order 
of United Workmen, and is a member of the Bachelor's Club.  In 
religious belief he is an Episcopalian.