John Hosea Wylie, 1823-1855

John Hosea Wylie, 1823-1855

14 February 1823

10 March 1855

John Hosea Wylie was born in Pennsylvania in 1823. He graduated from Indiana University in 1841 and from University of Louisville medical school in 1845. He then set up a practice in Richmond, Indiana. He married Lizzie Leeds in 1851, and they had one daughter, Irene. During the last few years of his life, Wylie traveled to California, modern-day Washington and Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) in hopes of recovering from his tuberculosis. He finally died on the island of Kaui in March 1855. His wife died of consumption the next year back in Bloomington. Their daughter was raised by the Leeds family.