Wiley Scribner

Wiley S. Scribner or Schribner (born September 1840 in Jacksonville , Morgan County , Illinois , † September 28, 1889 in Chicago , Illinois) was an American politician . He was acting governor of the Montana Territory from April 1869 to August 1870 .

Life

Wiley Scribner attended school in his hometown and then moved to Grant County , Wisconsin . There he was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for a term . He then studied law when the civil war broke out in which he fought on the Confederate side. Scribner only signed up for a short time at first, but later decided to remain in the service until the end of the war. He had meanwhile reached the rank of Colonel and shortly before his scheduled departure from military service, he became infected with malaria and returned home seriously ill.

politics

After the war, Scribner moved to Montana , which at that time was not yet a state, but still a territory of the United States, and there he worked for a daily newspaper. After some time working for the newspaper, he became an employee of the Montana Territory Administration. After the incumbent Governor James Mitchell Ashley resigned in April 1869 , Scribner was temporarily appointed as his successor. He was only to continue in office until the arrival of the new governor Benjamin Franklin Potts and remained governor of Montana until August 1870. In Montana he married his wife in 1870, with whom he moved back to Illinois shortly afterwards and stayed in Chicago. In Illinois he was still active in local politics for some time until he died of an aortic aneurysm on September 28, 1889 . He had had this condition for two years. Scribner was buried on October 1, 1889. He had no other children apart from an adopted daughter who was the child of his wife's sister.

literature

• Chicago Daily Tribune (1872–1963), Chicago, Illinois: May 13, 1887, p. 7
• Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963), Chicago, Illinois: Sep. 29, 1889, p. 11
• Chicago Daily Tribune (1872–1963), Chicago, Illinois: Oct. 2, 1889, p. 3

Web links

• Wiley Scribner in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard (English)