Born in Peoria County, Illinois, July 16, 1850. His father, Daniel L. Wiley, was a native of Vermont. Mr. Wiley attended school when about four years old for one summer at Lafayette, Stark County, Illinois, and next at Galva, Henry County. After spending one year at the Lombard University, at Galesburg, Ill., he attended Bryant & Stratton's College at Chicago, from which he was graduated in June, 1868. On July 1, of the same year, he accepted a position as bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Galva, with which he remained until January 1, 1870. The latter date he removed to Plymouth, Illinois, and entered into the banking house of Claudius, Tones & Co., as a partner but only remained with that concern about nine months, having been elected director and cashier of the Monmouth National Bank, then just organized. Three months later he resigned this latter position and accepted a position as cashier in the First National Bank of Galva, and in this last capacity remained until coming to Monona. County in 1880. At the fall election in 1885, after a spirited and close contest, Mr. Wiley, the candidate of the Republican party, was elected Representative to the legislature from this district and ably filled that position in the Twenty-first General Assembly of the State. Mr. Wiley, at Galva, Illinois, September 26, 1871, was united in marriage with Miss Florence E. Munger, a native of Yates County, N.Y.