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...Wiley's last public appearance was at the request of his old friend Dr. Henry Kurd Rusby of Columbia University.* He testified in confirmation of a technical point in Dr. Rusby's charges that the pure drug laws are not now being properly enforced (TIME, June 16, and p. 34). That day in the committee room he was heard to say: "I'd just as soon draw my last breath right here...
Only Mrs. Wiley, the Anna Campbell Kelton who married him in 1911 when he was 66 after aiding him for years at the Department of Agriculture, who bore him two sons and to whom he dedicated his Autobiography, realized last month that Dr. Wiley was sick unto death, and in no fit condition to testify...
Last fortnight, without Dr. Wiley's knowledge, she went before the Senate Committee and explained that his testimony was not a criticism of the present (Walter Gilbert Campbell's) administration of the pure drug laws. He was doing the best he could...
...years ago Dr. Wiley remarked: "I am not sitting down and moping over methods of postponing my funeral; I am just forgetting it." But last April he made his will devising virtually all his property ?farm lands in Virginia and Maryland, fruit groves in Florida,? scientific books, periodicals, medals, decorations, jewelry, paintings, savings?to Mrs. Wiley. He asked her to see that he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, to which he was eligible as a one-year veteran of the Civil...
Last week the War Department forbade the sort of interment that Mrs. Wiley wanted. She wished to erect a great monument. Regulations forbid any grave marker for enlisted men other than a plain stone of standard design. So Mrs. Wiley picked Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington for the burial. Then the War Department changed its Arlington rules for her. In the section called "Field of the Dead" she last week buried her husband with full military honors. On the plot she will put a large memorial, engraved: "Father of the Pure Food Laws...