Philadelphia County PA Archives Obituaries..... Captain James WILEY, 1895
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Jane Hamilton [rhamilton26@tampabay.rr.com]


July 9, 1895
  New York Tribune
  Page 7                 
                                 CAPTAIN JAMES WILEY
   Bethlehem, Penna., July 8,-CAPTAIN JAMES WILEY, United States Marine Corps,
retired, died suddenly last night from apoplexy, aged seventy-one.
  In 1840 he entered the United States Navy as a midshipman on the Constellation 
when the frigate made the first trip around the world. He was in due time promoted 
and retired as captain in 1872. He did sea service for eighteen years, shore and 
other duty for thirteen years, and lived retired twenty-three years.
   His estate is valued at a quarter of a million dollars. He married a daughter 
of the late Ellis Lewis, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Note: Interred in Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.

This file is located at:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/obits/w/wiley-j.txt