Sullivan-Cameron-Warren County PA Archives Biographies.....WILEY, Lyman 1843 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      LYMAN WILEY, a highly respected citizen of Lopez, Sullivan county, holds a
  responsible position in the mills of Jennings Brothers, the well known
  lumbermen, his ability and efficiency having won the entire confidence of the
  firm. For a number of years Mr. Wiley was engaged in business for himself,
  meeting with success, and at various times he has made judicious real estate
  investments, being now the owner of property in Duluth, Minnesota, valued at
  sixteen thousand dollars, including a house and lot purchased in 1884 and other
  property bought in 1888. He also owns a ten acre orange grove near Emporia,
  Florida, but the heavy frost of 1894-95 destroyed his trees, and the new growth
  will take years of care before reaching a profitable condition.
  
      Mr. Wiley derives his energy and business acumen from good Scotch-Irish
  stock. John Wiley, his paternal grandfather, was born in the north of Ireland,
  and after learning the cooper's trade came to America, locating first in Troy,
  New York, and later in Dowagiac, Cass county, Michigan, where his death
  occurred. He was married after arriving in America, his wife dying in Cass
  county, Michigan. They had the following children: James, a farmer near Peoria,
  Illinois; Robert, our subject's father; Josephine A., who became Mrs. Spencer
  and resided at Wellsville, New York, until the death of her husband, and she was
  afterward killed by a runaway horse in Denver, Colorado; William, deceased,
  formerly a farmer at Dowagiac, Michigan; and a daughter, who married Moses
  Adams, a farmer near Elkhart, Illinois.
  
      Robert Wiley, father of our subject, was born at Troy, New York, but his
  youth was chiefly spent upon a farm in Steuben county, New York. As a young man
  he engaged in farming there, and in 1859 he removed to the vicinity of Dowagiac,
  where he purchased a farm. Politically he was a Democrat and he and his wife
  were both devout members of the Presbyterian church. His death occurred at
  Dowagiac in 1865, when fifty-six years old, his wife departing this life in 1852
  at Addison, New York, aged forty-three years. This worthy couple had six
  children: J. S., deceased, formerly a well known lumberman at Emporium,
  Pennsylvania; Elizabeth, wife of Luther Quick, a mechanic at Tiskilwa, Illinois;
  Lyman, our subject; Sarah, who married Henry Cunningham, a farmer in Highland
  township, Iowa county, Wisconsin; Emma, widow of William Ball, of Dowagiac; and
  Mary, who married Hugh Spencer, of Highland township, Iowa county, Wisconsin.
  
      The birth of our subject occurred July 12, 1843, at Addison, New York, and
  during his youth he received a common-school education. At the age of fourteen
  he began work as a farm hand, receiving four dollars a month, thus requiring the
  labor of an entire month to enable him to buy a pair of boots. After a time he
  found employment in a sawmill in New York state as an unskilled laborer, and
  later he removed to Emporium, Pennsylvania, and worked for his elder brother,
  who was then engaged in lumbering. In 1866 he went to Greenville, Michigan,
  where he was employed in a mill as head sawyer for two years, and for four years
  he held a similar position at Manistee, same state. He then returned to
  Emporium, Pennsylvania, and entered into partnership with his brother,
  continuing about thirteen years. On disposing of his interest in 1885 he went to
  Emporia, Florida, where he spent some time looking after his orange grove, but
  on his return to Pennsylvania he worked for a while as a band-saw filer at
  Emporium and Tidioute, Pennsylvania. In March, 1897, he removed to Lopez and
  took his present position as band-saw filer for Jennings Brothers.
  
      In politics Mr. Wiley is a firm supporter of the Republican party, and
  although he is not ambitious for official honors he has at times been chosen to
  fill local offices. He attends the Methodist church and for many years has been
  an active member of the Masonic fraternity, having joined it at Addison, New
  York, in 1864. He is fond of out-door life, being a devotee of the bicycle, and
  is a veteran in the League of American Wheelmen.
  
      On November 8, 1880, Mr. Wiley was married at Addison, New York, to Miss
  Orvilla Rowley, daughter of Warren Rowley. She passed away while in Emporia,
  Florida, July 8, 1886.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
      Extracted from: 
        
      History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
      by Thomas J. Ingham
        
      Compendium of Biography
        
      The Lewis Publishing Company
      Chicago: 1899
  
  
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