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Surnames: Wiles, Gillie, Holder, Wright, Walls, Quackenbush,
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: Wiles, Gillie, Holder, Wright, Walls, Quackenbush,
SHELTON D. WILES, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, is a member of the firm of Gillie &
Wiles, veterinarians at 428 East Washington Street, Fort Wayne. Doctor Wiles is a World
war veteran. He was born in Perry Township, Tipton County, Indiana, June 18, 1884. All
his people came from Southern Indiana, Switzerland County. His paternal grandfather and
wife, Martha Wiles, settled in that county from South Carolina. His maternal grandfather,
William Wright, who married Caroline Holder, was a pioneer of Switzerland County, but
spent his last years in Tipton County. Doctor Wiles is a son of Rodis and Margaret
(Wright) Wiles. His father, who spent his active life as a farmer, was born in Switzerland
County in 1838 and his wife in 1842. He died in Tipton County in 1888 and his wife in
Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1913. Four of their children are living. Rodis Wiles was one
of the charter members of the Prairieville Masonic Lodge and helped burn the brick for the
house, which was the l!
odge hall. He was a Methodist. Shelton D. Wiles attended school in Tipton County, grew up
on a farm there and from boyhood took a great interest in farm and domestic
animals. Following that inclination he prepared for a professional career as a
veterinarian, graduating from the Indiana Veterinary College at Indianapolis in
1917. In the same year he enlisted as a private and later was commissioned a
second lieutenant in the Veterinary Corps. He was assigned to the Nineteenth
Veterinary Hospital and was overseas in France on duty nine months. He received
his honorable discharge July 1, 1919, and at once engaged in private practice; spending
two years at St. Joseph, Indiana, and in 1921 came to Fort Wayne. Here he
practiced alone until 1923, when the present firm of Gillie & Wiles was organized.
Doctor Wiles is a member of the Indiana State, the Northeastern and National Veterinary
Medical Associations. He belongs to the A!
merican Legion and is a member of Summit City Ledge, A. F. and A. M. On September 11,
1918, he married Miss Lucretia Walls. She was born in Greene County, Indiana, March 11,
1885, daughter of James H. and Jane (Quackenbush) Walls. Her grandparents were George and
Minerva Walls, pioneers of Greene County, and her mother was a daughter of Elwood and
Nancy Quackenbush, likewise early settlers of Greene County. Mrs. Wiles father, who was a
farmer, died in 1919 and her mother in 1917. Doctor and Mrs. Wiles have one daughter,
Margaret Jane, born May 2, 1921.