Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-06-09
A TRIBUTE TO HERBERT C..
WILEY.


citizens has answered the final roll call
and has passed over into the great
beyond and this time 1T has been one
whose departure is and Will be
mourned and felt by the entire com
munity for sure it is that if Herbert
{. Wiley had an enemy none save that
one knew Of the fact. If there ever
was man whose entire life, business
and social, endeared him to the hearts
of the community of the com
munity--that man was Herbert {.
Wiley.
Mr. Wiley was stricken one week
ago last Saturday evening, and was
at once removed to his home in SOUTH
Ottawa, where he received every at
,ention and care that medical science
and trained nursing could suggest. Al
first it was thought that the attack,
which bore all the earmarks Of
paralysis, was not necessarily severe
or fatal But Mr. Wiley had been sui
fering for several years with kidney
trouble, and this, combined with the
effects of a somewhat recent attack
Of the influenza, had so depleted his
vitality that the system, especially the
heart, was not strong enough to r.
spOnd to the necessary treatment adj
ministered, and to rally from the at
tack of the disease Mr. Wiley grew
gradually weaker from day to day
and finally passed away this morning
at O'Clock.
Norbert G. Wiley was born in the
town OF Meriden, in the north part
of this county, fifty years ago the 26th
of last March. His father was Samuel
c. Wiley, one of the prominent men
Of the county, having held many Of
fetal positions, among them those OF
supervisor and mainber Of the le1isla-
ture. Herbert G~'Miley secured a COM
mon school euuca ion in the com
munity where he lived, and then be-
gan the study Of the law Tnally being
admitted to practice his chosen pro
fessiOn He spent some time as .
deputy in the office OF William Taylor
then circuit Clerk He also served q
considerable apprenticeship in the
law offices of Brewer & Strawn Later
he opened up an Office for himself in
ne Leland Block, and began the prac-
tice of the law in earnest He con
tinued by himself, gradually working
his way up to a recognized position
at the bar of Ia Sale County till the
year 1903, at which time he formed a
partnership with Lee O'Ncil Browne,
as Browne & Wiley, which partner
ship lasted till the death Of Mr. Wiley
In the year 1898 Mr. Wiley was the
candidate of his party-DemOcratlc-
for the office of probate judge, but
was defeated by judge a. T. Lardn by
small margin Mr.. Wiley had for
years past stood very hieh in the coun-
ellis of his party both in the county
and state, and had been chairman Of
the Democratic county central com
mittoe for the past eight years, and
fer the past seven years he had ably
filed the position Of assistant states
attorney of La Sale County,
As a careful. painstaking lawyer Of
recognizcd ability Mr. Wiley had few
equals and no superiors at the bar
of this county His uprightness and
honesty were household words in this
community His private and public
life were clean and above reproach
And as a gentleman. a kindly friend,
a real man, he was looked UP 20 by all
who either knew him personally or
had heard of him. Ottawa and her
citizens-yes, and La Sale County
as well-wil miss him and mourn his
loss most deeply.
Mr.. Wiley leaves him surviving bis
widow, Catharine; a son, Herbert, his
only child; Mrs. Carries f. Cook of
Earlvlle, H., a sister; Mrs, Mabel
L. Atwood of Aurora, III. Il sister;
Gilbert II Wiley of EarlyilIe, ILL.,. a
brother; Mrs. Ruth w McCredic Of
Aurora. H. a sister; Mrs Rose W.
Biggs Of Aurora, H., sister; George
S. Wiley Of Ottawa, H., brother
The funeral will be held from the
late home on Wednesday afternoon at
2 o'clock