Biography - Robert P. Wiley

ROBERT P. WILEY, one of the prominent ranchers and stock men residing near Wellington, was born in Wyoming. He was born on the plains while his parents were en route to the Pacific Coast, which was in 1864. His father Robert and his mother Margaret were both natives of Missouri. They followed the old Reese River route and located at Nine Mile ranch near Aurora. Mr. Wiley's father engaged in ranching on a large scale and was one of the prominent stock men of his locality and owned various ranches. He also bought the Sulphur Springs ranch in 1871, consisting of two hundred acres. He died in 1899. The mother of Mr. Wiley is in her 8oth year and resides in Carson City. There were six children in the parents' family. Irene, wife of A. J. Hinds, of Wellington, died at the age of thirty-nine; Mattie, wife of M. B. Blackwell, of Carson City; Maud, wife of R. H. Dalzell, of Tonopah; John, a resident of Alberta, Canada; Clifford, a mining man of Rawhide, and Robert, our subject. Mr. Wiley attended the public schools of Sweetwater and Reno. He has always been identified with farming and now owns 640 acres in Mineral County. He was married to Minnie Larson, of Colorado, in 1888. To this union were born four children, Elmer, attending the U. of N.; Esther and Maud, attending school in Carson, and Verna, who died at the age of eleven. Mr. Wiley is a Democrat. He has resided on the Dalzel ranch for twenty-three years and is a member of the I. O. O. F.

Transcribed 2020 May 06 by Norma Hass from The History of Nevada, published in 1913, volume 2, page 1264.

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