Background
Wiley, Edwin was born on August 22, 1872 in Coal Creek, Tennessee, United States. Son of Edwin Floyd and Catherine (McAdoo) Wiley.
Wiley, Edwin was born on August 22, 1872 in Coal Creek, Tennessee, United States. Son of Edwin Floyd and Catherine (McAdoo) Wiley.
Bachelor of Science, University of Tennessee, 1891, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, 1898. Doctor of Philosophy, George Washington University, 1911.
Apprentice assistant in Harvard University Library, 1892-1893. Librarian and assistant in English, University of Tennessee, 1893-1899. Assistant librarian and assistant in English, Vanderbilt University, 1899-1906.
Lecturer in English, George Washington University.
Classifier, Library of Congress, 1906-1913. Classifier, University of California, 1913-1915.
Librarian, United States Naval War College, 1916-1922, Peoria (Illinois) Public Library, since 1922. Author: The Old and the New Renaissance, 1903.
Early Presses of Tennessee (publications Bibliographical Society).
Libraries in the South (in The South in the Building of the Nation). Library of Congress Classification Schemes for Political Science, Philosophy, English, American and Comparative Literatures, Charities and Corrections. Also articles on library history, library architecture, et cetera, in Encyclopedia Americana, 1919.
Editor: History of the United States.
Associate editor The Foundation Library, The Great War (Barrie). Contributor to various publications
Married Garnet Noel, August 7, 1902.