Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 745-746 [McCracken]

     JAMES BENNETT WILEY.  A prominent factor in various interests
in and around Maxon Mill, McCracken county, Kentucky, is found in
the subject of this sketch, James Bennett Wiley.  He is a native of
McCracken county, was born in the year 1859, and is a son of James
and Martha H. (Ogilvie) Wiley, the former a native of Muhlenburg [sic]
county, Kentucky, and the latter of Tennessee.  James Wiley located
in McCracken county in early life and was one of its prosperous and
highly respected farmers.  He died in 1874, at the age of fifty-eight
years, and was buried in Newton Creek graveyard.  His wife,
whom he wedded in 1850, survived him a number of years, her death
occurring in 1891, at the age of seventy-one years.  Their two sons
are James Bennett and Stephen L., the latter a resident of
California, interested in the Barrett & Hicks Hardware Company of
Fresno.
     James Bennett Wiley was reared on his father's farm and
attended the schools near his home.  After leaving school he engaged
in the general medicine business with his brother, in Woodville,
Kentucky, where he met with success and where he continued until
1880.  That year he went west and turned his attention to mining and
cattle-raising, remained in the west for a period of fifteen years,
and in 1895 returned to his old home in Kentucky.  Since his return
to McCracken county he has been engaged in farming and in the drug
business at Maxon Mill, and has been prospered in his undertakings.
     Mr. Wiley was married to Miss Fannie Rudd, also of McCracken
county, and they are the parents of one child, Stephen R.  Mr. Wiley
is identified with the same political party his father supported,
and has always taken an active interest in local politics.

Wiley Ogilive Barrett Hicks Rudd
=
Muhlenberg-KY TN CA

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