Family of Farley Wilder WHEELWRIGHT and Virginia

Farley Wilder Wheelwright (1916- ) received his BA from St. Lawrence

Seminary in 1957, an MDiv from the Hartford Seminary in 1961, and a

DMin from Andover Newton Theological School in 1977. He was ordained

in 1961, and was called to serve the Nassau County Unitarian

Universalist Church, a newly merged congregation in Garden City, New

York, in 1962. Here he became involved in social activism, and was

president of the Long Island Peace Council. Wheelwright was pastor of

the Unitarian Society of Cleveland from 1968 to 1973. He also hosted

a popular and controversial radio program in Cleveland which dealt

with religious and social issues. In 1973, Wheelwright became the

minister at the First Unitarian Church in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

In 1980, he was called to serve the Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist

Society in California. After retiring from the ministry in 1985,

Wheelwright was named minister emeritus at Sepulveda. From 1985 to

1988, Wheelwright traveled extensively, including one year spent as

the interim minister of the Unitarian Church of South Australia. From

1988 to 1990, he was the interim senior minister at Arlington Street

Church in Boston, Massachusetts. He also served as president of the

Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship, and was a founding trustee of

the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship for Religious Humanists. He has

also contributed articles to a number of publications, including

Religious Humanism, Cleveland Magazine, and the Journal of Liberal

Ministry.