Wiley, Autrey Nell, 1901-1990

Autrey Nell Wiley was born on May 27, 1901, in Saint Jo, Texas. Her father, James Robert Wiley, was an attorney with an extensive career in law and the Texas legislature. Julia Carolyn Wiley, Autrey's mother, came to Texas from Illinois. Julia was a housewife and apparently suffered from poor health. She passed away in December of 1943. Autrey was the eldest of two girls. Her sister, Margaret, taught English at the University of Texas at Arlington .

Autrey entered the College of Industrial Arts (CIA), in Denton, Texas, and earned a B.A. in English and French. She states, "I received the varied training of my college from 'prep' days through four years of standard college work: art, music, physical education, manual arts, physics, household physics, chemistry, history, Latin, French, journalism, educational methods, practice teaching, philosophy, and English" (Wiley, "Family and Affiliations"). She graduated from CIA in 1922, received her M.A. degree from Columbia University, New York, in 1924, and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1931.

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