Background
Isaac was born 29 March 1825 in Lewistown, Pennsylvania.
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China and Japan: A Record of Observations Made During a Residence of Several Years in China, and a Tour of Official Visitation to the Missions of Both Countries in 1877-78
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Isaac Wiley
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Education
Isaac had been preparing to enter the sophomore class at Dickinson College, but the affection of his throat being considered permanent, he commenced the study of medicine, instead. He was graduated in 1846 from the medical department of the University of New New York He pursued a course of classical study in the same institution.
Career
Doctor Isaac Wiley commenced the practice of medicine in Western Pennsylvania, subsequently moving to Pottsville in 1849. Shortly thereafter, at the request of Doctor Durbin, Isaac agreed to go as a medical missionary to Foochow, China. Isaac first was received into the ministry of the Genesee Annual Conference of the Mechanical Engineering Church.
He also attended an additional course of lectures in the University of New New York
Finally, he sailed for China, March 1850, transferring his conference membership to the Philadelphia Conference. Doctor Wiley returned from China in May 1854.
He then was appointed to fill a pastoral vacancy on Staten Island. In 1855 he transferred his conference membership again, this time to the Newark Annual Conference.
He was successively appointed to Newark and then Jersey City.
In 1858 the Review Doctor Wiley took charge of the Pennington Seminary. He served this position until 1863.
In 1864 he was elected Editor of the Ladies" Repository, an important periodical of his denomination.
He was re-elected to this position in 1868. While editor, he also edited books for the Mechanical Engineering Book Concern. As Bishop he was one of the founders of Wiley College, the first and oldest historically Black college west of the Mississippi River, located in Marshall, Texas.
Bishop Wiley traveled extensively to the various United States. States and Territories.
In 1877 he made an extensive tour in support of the Mechanical Engineering missions in Japan and China. Bishop Wiley died in Foochow, China, 22 November 1884.
The funeral services took place the next day at Tieng Ang Tong.
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China and Japan: A Record of Observations Made During a Residence of Several Years in China, and a Tour of Official Visitation to the Missions of Both Countries in 1877-78
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- China and Japan: A record of observations made during a residence of several years in China and a tour of official visitation to the missions of both countries in 1877-78
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China and Japan: A Record of Observations Made During a Residence of Several Years in China, and a Tour of Official Visitation to the Missions of Both Countries in 1877-78
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American