Artist
Centurion, 1904–1932
Born 24 March 1856 in Detroit, Michigan
Died 9 November 1932 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Elmwood Cemetery
, Detroit, Michigan
Proposed by George Willoughby Maynard and Will H. Low
Elected 5 March 1904 at age forty-seven
Century Memorial
Frederick J. Wiley’s longing for an artistic career of his own led him many years ago to give up a lucrative commercial position as draftsman and general decorator in order to engage in landscape painting. His work was distinctive and original, but it did not achieve the distinction of wide public vogue; for the most part, the appreciation which he won came from his artist friends. Quite apart from his work with the brush, he was a man of broad and classic culture.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1933 Century Association Yearbook