History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ks of agricult-ural pursuits. Her father, John Wiley, wasa prominent school teacher and preacher inwestern Maryland for forty yeara He wasborn in IJSOO and died in 1870, after a longand useful life. George F. enjoyed the ad-vantages of a liberal education. He attend-ed the common country schools of easternOhio, in Tuscarawas and Stark counties,which early training was supplenuuted by acourse at the Smithville academy, of Smit
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . ks of agricult-ural pursuits. Her father, John Wiley, wasa prominent school teacher and preacher inwestern Maryland for forty yeara He wasborn in IJSOO and died in 1870, after a longand useful life. George F. enjoyed the ad-vantages of a liberal education. He attend-ed the common country schools of easternOhio, in Tuscarawas and Stark counties,which early training was supplenuuted by acourse at the Smithville academy, of Smith-ville, Wayne county, Ohio. After graduat-ing from the academy, he entered the Ohionormal university, of Ada, Ohio, from whichhe graduated in 1879. The Ohio nonnal uni-versity is one of the best schools of Ohio andfor several years has had the largest enroll-ment of students of any school of its kind inthe state. It is a progressive institution inevery way, giving full scope to the individualcharacteristics of the scholar. Its literarysocieties are among its most prominent fea-tures. Mr. (Jetty taught school during hislast year at the university, returning at the. UKOUGK F. GKTTY. end of the school term to graduate. He wassalutatorian of his class. \\hile at theOhio normal he was a member of the Phil-omathean literary society, one of the ^wo,now three, prominent societies of that in-stitution. He took an active interest inthe work of the society and represented itat the close of every term of school, whilein attendance, either in oratorical or jointdebate, with the members of the othersociety. These debates were always ofgreat jjublic interest and took place beforelarge and appreciative audiences. Sinceleaving the university he has twice been in-vited to debate at alnnmi reunions, and ac-cepted the invitation in 1890. After leavingthe Ohio normal he entered the law depart-ment of the university of Michigan, at AnnArbor, from which he graduated in 1882, andwas admitted to pract
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