History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . ember of the Woodmen of the World,and he and his devoted wife are also numbered among the popular Rebekahs. ROBERT J. WILEY.—A native son of California whose parents were among thepioneer residents of the state is Robert J. Wiley, who for the past fifteen years hasbeen identified with the progressive development of Orange County. The son ofWilliam and Elizabeth (Simmons) Wiley, Robert
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . ember of the Woodmen of the World,and he and his devoted wife are also numbered among the popular Rebekahs. ROBERT J. WILEY.—A native son of California whose parents were among thepioneer residents of the state is Robert J. Wiley, who for the past fifteen years hasbeen identified with the progressive development of Orange County. The son ofWilliam and Elizabeth (Simmons) Wiley, Robert J., was born at Downey, Cal.,February 18, 1873. The father, who was a native of Ohio, came to California in 1854and in 1858 purchased the place at Downey where Robert was born. He was a suc-cessful farmer and continued to live on the home place until his death in 1898, at theage of sixty-six years. Mrs. Elizabeth Wiley was born in Louisiana, but was rearedin Texas, where her parents and grandparents had settled in the early days. In 1862she came with her parents to California and was married to Mr. Wiley when she wasbut nineteen years old. She is still living and resides on the old homestead at HISTORY OF ORAXGE COLXTY 1113 The eldest of a family of seven children, all of whom arc living, Robert J. Wileygrew up at Downey and attended the public school there. At the age of fourteen,however, he started out to make his own way in the world, doing farm work on theneighboring ranches, continuing in this employment until 1905, when he engaged inthe fumigating business, becoming a partner in the firm of Bowman and Wiley. is one of the veteran fumigators of Orange County and is one of the few wholived through the experimental stages of the business. He has handled tons and tonsof cyanide of potassium without ever having suffered from its deleterious effects, andmade a financial success of this business, in which he continued until 1918, when hebegan farming on the g
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