From: From: Biographical & Historical Cyclopedia of WestmorelandCounty, Pennsylvania, Gresham, Page280-281
Henry Todd Wiley, a well-known citizen and successful merchant ofScottdale, was born in Sewickley township, Westmoreland county, Pa.,March 29, 1888, and is a son of Sampson and Sarah (Todd) Wiley.

H T Wiley worked on a farm until he was twenty-one years of age,during which time he attended the common schools and one term at Curry Normal Institute, Pittsburg, Pa. He taught for fourteen years in Allegheny county and one year at Curry Institute and then 1870, became a clerk in the mercantile house of A J Shank & Co., at Saltsburg, Pa. Five years later he assumed charge of W H Brown Son`s company store at Boston on the Monongahela river, near McKeesport, Pa. Under the firm name of H T Wiley & Co. he conducted this store successfully for ten years. In 1885 he removed to Scottdale and established at No 607 on Pittsburg street, and contains a varied and valuable stock of general merchandise. He keeps on hand all kinds of imported and domestic dry goods, ladies and gentlemen's furnishings, notions,groceries, provisions, from farm, garden, dairy and orchard, drugs,glassware, etc.

H T Wiley was married on July 14, 1868, to Sarah Jane Haney of Port Perry, Allegheny county Pa. She died in 1872 and in 1874 he was united in marriage with Anna Belle Nickel, daughter of the late Dr.John R Nickel, of Connellsville, Pa. He had born to him one child by his first marriage, Jane, who died in 1887, and five children by his second marriage: Laura T., George A., Harry B., Bessie B., and Lizzie H.

H T Wiley is a prohibitionist and a member of the Junior and Senior Orders of the United American Mechanics. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has held all the offices. By straight forward and honorable dealing he has won his way into the front rank of substantial merchants.