... John Hosea Wylie was born in 1823 in Pennsylvania. He was the sixth child of Andrew and Margaret Wylie. He graduated from Indiana University in 1841 and from University of Louisville medical school in 1845. He set up 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. Irene Wylie was raised by her mother’s family. ...