Wiley, Aldridge C.

Born: 1814-XX-XX New York

Flourished: Galesburg, Illinois

Aldridge C. Wiley was a tanner, justice of the peace, and temperance advocate. He married Maria Hammond in 1836 in Medina County, Ohio. The couple would have at least six children. He was a tanner in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1850 and owned real property valued at $1,000. In 1851, Wiley was among the original incorporators of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. When residents of Galesburg Township organized the township in 1853, Wiley won election as justice of the peace, an office he held until at least 1860. In 1854, he became vice-president of the Knox County Maine Law Alliance, a temperance organization. Wiley supported the Republican Party. In 1859, the Illinois State Journal reported that the dwelling of Wiley had been burnt. In 1860, he was a justice of the peace and owned real property valued at $16,750 and had a personal estate of $3,000.

Portrait and Biographical Album of Knox County, Illinois (Chicago: Biographical, 1886), 1003, 1069; Chas C. Chapman, History of Knox County, Illinois (Chicago: Blakely, Brown & Marsh, 1878), 468; Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, 20 September 1836, Medina County (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2016); U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Galesburg, Knox County, IL, 354; William S. Gale and Others to Abraham Lincoln; The Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 1 June 1859, 1:1; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Galesburg, Knox County, IL, 405.