About the Wylie Family
Wylie House was inhabited by Wylies for nearly 80 years. Andrew Wylie built the house in 1835 and lived there with his wife Margaret and ten of their twelve children. Theophilus A. Wylie and his family lived in the house from 1859 until 1913.
Below are links to information about the two Wylie families. The personal and professional papers of both Andrew and Theophilus Wylie are held at the Indiana University Archives, Herman B Wells Library, Rm. E460, and are available to researchers by appointment (812-855-1127). To view the Archives finding aid website, click here.
Family Biographies
Letters
Affectionately Yours, the letters of the Andrew Wylie family (3rd ed.) is now available to view or download in two volumes (click links below to open or download pdf files). Volume 1 includes approximately 20 "new" letters, acquired since the last edition was printed. Print editions will no longer be available.
Affectionately Yours, the letters of the Andrew Wylie family, Volume 1, (3rd ed.)
Affectionately Yours, the letters of the Andrew Wylie family, Volume 2, (3rd ed.)
Wylie Family Photo Gallery
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This portrait of the Reverend Dr. Andrew Wylie is owned by one of his descendants who kindly sent us this image. Another portrait of him hangs in the entry hall of the house. -
The only known image of Margaret Ritchie Wylie, wife of Andrew Wylie and mother of twelve children, ten of whom lived in Wylie House with their parents. -
Theophilus Adam Wylie, long time IU professor and half cousin of Andrew Wylie. He lived in Wylie House from 1859 until his death in 1895. -
Rebecca Dennis Wylie, wife of T. A. Wylie, who lived to be almost 101. -
Family portrait taken outside Wylie House about 1880. Theophilus and Rebecca are seated with son Brown and his wife Seabrook with their first child, daughter Louisa and her two children, and daughter Margaret and her four sons. -
Margaret Wylie Mellette, daughter of TAW and RDW, with her husband Arthur Calvin Mellette, first governor of South Dakota, and their four sons. -
Richard Dennis Wylie, son of TAW and RDW who enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, and died of disease in 1861. -
Theophilus Andrew Wylie, son of TAW and RDW, who was called Toph by his family. He died in 1878, having never married. -
Samuel Brown Wylie, son of TAW and RDW, known as Brown. He died in 1890 leaving his wife and four children. -
Seabrook Mitchell Wylie, wife of Brown Wylie, with their first child, Theo (short for Theophilus). When she was widowed, she moved to Boston with Theo, and died there in 1899. -
Sam, Laurence, and Reba (short for Rebecca), the younger three children of Brown and Seabrook Wylie. After their father's death, they lived here at Wylie house and were raised by their grandmother and Aunt Louisa. -
Theodore Wylie, youngest son of TAW and RDW, who was called Dory by his family. Although he did marry, his wife died before they had children, and he did not remarry. -
Louisa Wylie Boisen, eldest child of TAW and RDW. Louisa was the only Wylie daughter to graduate from college. When she was widowed in 1884, she brought her two young children home to Wylie House where she raised them while caring for her parents until their deaths. -
Hermann B. Boisen, husband of Louisa Wylie, and professor of modern languages. He died in 1884. -
Anton and Marie Boisen, children of Louisa Wylie Boisen, who were raised here in Wylie House after their father's death. -
Anton Boisen graduated from IU in 1897, from the Yale Forestry School in 1905, and from Union Seminary, New York City in 1911. -
Marie Louise Boisen married Morton C. Bradley in 1900 after her graduation from IU. -
1913, sitting on the front steps of Wylie House are Rebecca D. Wylie, her daughter Louisa Wylie Boisen, her granddaughter Marie Boisen Bradley, and her great grandchildren Morton C. Bradley, Jr. (known as Bob) and Louise Bradley. -
Morton C. Bradley, Sr. and his two children Louise and Bob, about 1918.
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