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WILEY, Calvin Henderson, clergyman, born in Guilford county, North Carolina, 3 February, 1819; died in Winston, North Carolina, 11 January, 1887. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1840, studied law, and was admitted to the bar soon after his graduation. He was elected to the state legislature in 1850, and again in 1852, and in the latter year was chosen the first state superintendent of common schools, to which post he was re-elected for six successive terms of two years each by an almost unanimous vote. So efficient was the system of public instruction under his administration that the schools were kept in operation during the entire period of the civil war, something which it is claimed did not occur in any other southern state. Having previously studied theology, he was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Orange in 1855, in 1869 was appointed general agent of the American Bible society for middle and eastern Tennessee, and in 1874 was transferred to North Carolina, South Carolina being included in his field of labor in 1876. During the civil war Mr. Wiley was instrumental in establishing a publishing-house at Greensboro to supply the state with text-books; also in organizing at Columbia, South Carolina, an educational association for the Confederacy, and in establishing a North Carolina state educational association, of whose journal he was one of the editors. He founded with William D. Cooke the "Southern Weekly Post" of Raleigh, which he also edited, published and edited the " Oxford Mercury," was one of the founders of the "North Carolina Presbyterian," and contributed to other journals. In addition to school-books, he published "Alamance, or the Great and Final Experiment," a novel (New York, 1847) ; "Adventures of Old Dan Tucker with his Son Walter" (London, 1851); " Utopia: a Picture of Early Life at the South " (Philadelphia, 1852) ; " Life in the South : a Companion to 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'" (1852); " Scriptural Views of National Trials" (Greensboro', 1863); and " Roanoke; or Where is Utopia ?" (Philadelphia, 1886).
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