Biographical Details
Date of Birth: April 25, 1819
Birth Location: Washington, PA, USA
Graduation Year(s): 1838
Degree(s) Earned: Bachelors
Date of Death: July 23, 1840
Death Location: Near Louisville, Jefferson County, KY, USA
Craig Ritchie Wylie
Life Experience
The third son of twelve children born to IU’s first President Andrew Wylie, Craig Ritchie Wylie was named after his maternal grandfather, who emigrated from Scotland in 1772 and was friend and frequent host of George Washington. Wylie graduated from IU in 1838 at age nineteen and intended to study law. He taught briefly in Kentucky before dying at age twenty-one of congestive fever. Wylie was the brother of Andrew Wylie, Jr., John Hosea Wylie, and Samuel Theophylact Wylie.
References
- Wylie
- Findagrave.com
- Burgess, Jo (ed.) (2011) Affectionately Yours: The Andrew Wylie Family Letters, Volume I 1828-1859 (3rd ed.; Bloomington, IN; The Wylie House Museum)