Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-01
DR.. WILEY FUNERAL
RITES TOMORROW
Father of Pure Food Act viii
Be Buried in Rock Creek
Cemetery.

Funeral services for DR.. Harvey w
Wiley father Of the pure food and drug
act and one Of the foremost scientists
of his times, will be held tomorrow
afternoon at ? O'Clock in the Vermont
Avenue Christian Church. Rev. DR.
Earle Whitley. the pastor. will officiate
and interment will be made i'll Rock
Greek Cemetery.
DR.. Wiley died early yesterday morn
ing at his residence 2345 Ashmead
place, of heart disease. after a long i'll
nsss. Up to a short time before his
death, at the age of IS years, he con-
tinued his active interest in all matters
affecting administration of the food
and drug act and health in general.
Friends Pallbearers.
At the services tomorrow a number
of Dr. Wiley's old friends and former
associates who represent many sides of
his life's work will act as honorary pail
bearers. They include DR. Charles E.
Munroe for the Cosmos Club. DR. w. D.
BIgeloW, who was in the Bureau OF
Chemistry when DR.. Wiley was its chief
DR.. w. w Skinner of the present Bu-
reau of Chemistry and Soils, Walter G.
Campbell, chief of the food, drug and
1nsecticide administration. Department
of Agriculture: Senator James E. Wat
son OF Indiana. Representative Harry
C. Garfield of Dr. Wiley's Kent, Ind
district; DR.. Percy H Walker of the
American Chemistry Society; Y. E
Booker of the Chess Club. Dr. Edward
Hart of EaSton, Pa the American
Chemical Society; Cabot Stevens of the
washington Harvard Club. Dr. George
F. Bowerman, representing the Literary
Society, and Harry G.. Meem of the
Washington Loan &, Trust Co, in which
DR.. Wiley was a director.
Widow Survives.
Dr. Wiley is survived by his widow,
Anna Kelton Wiley. daughter of Gen.
John G. Kelton, former adjutant gen.
eral of the Army, and 2 sons, Har-
vey W. jr., and John Preston. and also
by nieces and nephews and IA grand
nieces and nephews.
They are the children of Judge U.
z. Wiley, former judge of the Appellate
Court of Indiana; Carl Cole Wiley of
Charleston, w. Va; Mrs. j. Hanselman
of Santo Domingo, Maxwell H Wiley of
Bay Shore, N. Y, and Uric Weir Wiley
of Cuba, Mrs. John l.. Fuelling, who
lives in the old family home in Kent,
Ind, and her brother, Mr.. Hubert Ed
son of New York, children of sister,
Mrs Mira Edison, and the son of DR..
Elizabeth Corbett of New York and
Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted architect.
DR.. Wiley was a member of most of
the leading scientific associations of the
country and had received foreign hon
ors for his distinguished public services.
He was a chevalier of the Legion
dHonneur of France and had also re-
ceived the medal of Merite Agricole of
France. He was a member and former
president of the Cosmos Club, a MEM
Der of the Chevy Chase Club member
and former president of the Literary
Society of Washington, member and
former president of the American
Chemical Society, a member and for
mer president of the American Thera-
peutic Society, a member of the Amer
lean Association for the Advancement
of Science, president of the Pharma-
copoeial Convention from 1910 to 1920
and member of the Indiana Society Of
the Sons of the American Revolution.