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Wiley, Calvin Henderson – Wilkie, Francis Bangs
Wiley, Calvin Henderson
clergyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 3, 1819, in Guilford county, N. C. He was a presbyterian clergyman and educator in the Carolinas; and the author of Adventures of Old Dan Tucker; Utopia, a Picture of Early Life at the South; Scriptural Views of National Trials; Alamance, a novel; and Roanoke, or Where is Utopia? He died Jan. 11, 1887, in Winston, N. C.
Wiley, Harvey Washington
educator, chemist, was born in 1844, in Kent, Ind. He has been state chemist of Indiana; president of the American Chemist society; president of the association of Official Agricultural Chemists; and filled various other positions of honor. He is the author of Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis: Part I., Soils; Part II., Fertilizers; and Part III., Agricultural Products.
Wiley, Isaac William
bishop, author, was born March 29, 1825, in Lewiston, Pa. He was a bishop of the methodist church from 1872; and the author of The Fallen Missionaries of Fuh Chan; The Religion of the Family; and China and Japan: a Record of Observations. He died in November, 1884, in China.
Wiley, James S
congressman, was born in Maine. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1847 to 1849.
Wiley, John M
merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 11, 1846, in Ireland. He was elected to the New York legislature in 1871 and 1872; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a democrat.
Wilkes, George
journalist, author, was born in 1820 in New York city. He was a journalist of New York city, editor of The Spirit of the Times from 1850; and the author of History of California; Europe in a Hurry; and Shakespeare from an American Point of View. He died Sept. 23, 1885, in New York city.
Wilkes, John Summerfield
soldier, lawyer, was born March 2, 1841, in Culleoka, Tenn. He served as a soldier in the confederate army. He has been president of the Citizens National bank of Pulaski, Tenn.; president of Martin Female college; and associate justice of the supreme court of Tennessee.
Wilkeson, Frank
journalist, author, was born March 8, 1845, in Buffalo, N. Y. He is a journalist of Hamilton, Wash.; and the author of Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac.
Wilkeson, Samuel
manufacturer, state senator, was born in 1781 in Carlisle, Pa. He was appointed first judge of the Erie court of common pleas in February, 1821, though he was without a legal education, was elected to the New York state senate in 1842, and served in that body and in the court for the correction of errors for six years. In 1836 he was elected mayor of Buffalo. He died in July, 1848, in Tennessee.
Wilkeson, Samuel
journalist, was born May 9, 1817, in Buffalo, N. Y. He was for twelve years a staff writer on the New York Tribune, and its war correspondent in the army of the Potomac, and was the editor and owner of the Buffalo Democracy and of the Albany Evening Journal, having bought out Thurlow Weed in 1865. He has been secretary of the Northern Pacific Railroad company since 1869.
Wilkie, Francis Bangs
journalist, author, was born July 2, 1832, in West Charlton, N. Y. He was a Chicago journalist; and the author of Petrolia, or the Oil Regions of the United States (1865); Davenport, Past and Present; Walks About Chicago; The Chicago Bar; Great Inventions and Their Influence on Civilization; The Gambler, a Story of Chicago Life; Pen and Powder; and Personal Reminiscences. He died in 1892.