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: ''Huài-lā̤''; 29 March 1825 – 22 November 1884) was an
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Isaac was born 29 March 1825 in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at ten years of age.
Education
Isaac had been preparing to enter the sophomore class at
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, but the affection of his throat being considered permanent, he commenced the study of medicine, instead. He was graduated in 1846 from the medical department of the
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. He pursued a course of classical study in the same institution.
Medical missionary
Dr. Isaac Wiley commenced the practice of medicine in Western Pennsylvania, subsequently moving to
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in 1849. Shortly thereafter, at the request of Dr. Durbin, Isaac agreed to go as a medical missionary to Foochow,
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.
Isaac first was received into the ministry of the Genesee Annual Conference of the M.E. Church. He also attended an additional course of lectures in the University of New York. Finally, he sailed for
China
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, March 1850, transferring his conference membership to the Philadelphia Conference.
Pastoral, academic, and editorial ministries
The Rev. Dr. Wiley returned from China in May 1854. He then was appointed to fill a pastoral vacancy on
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. In 1855 he transferred his conference membership again, this time to the
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Annual Conference. He was successively appointed to Newark and then
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'', an important periodical of his denomination. He was re-elected to this position in 1868. While editor, he also edited books for the M.E. Book Concern.
Episcopal ministry
The Rev. Dr. Isaac William Wiley was elected to the episcopacy of the Methodist Episcopal Church by the General Conference of 1872. As bishop he was one of the founders of Wiley College, the first and oldest historically Black college west of the Mississippi River, located in Marshall, Texas. Wiley College was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1873 and chartered by the
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of the M.E. Church in 1882 for the purpose of providing education to the ''"newly freed men"'' (following emancipation and the American Civil War), preparing them for a new life.
Bishop Wiley traveled extensively to the various U.S. States and Territories. In 1877 he made an extensive tour in support of the M.E. missions in
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and China.
Bishop Wiley died in Foochow, China, 22 November 1884. The funeral services took place the next day at Tieng Ang Tong.
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