The Life and Work of Samuel Thomas Wiley, Historian and Educator, 1850-1905

Résumé du livre

Biography of Samuel Thomas Wiley (1850-1905), who was a local author and historian. He was almost self-educated, because his health would not allow the anticipated attendance at Yale University. He was raised by his grandparents in Smithfield, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He wrote much of the historical part for the biographical encyclopedias published by Gresham Company for Pennsylvania, New York and Indiana.