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DeathYear: 1895
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Parents: Rev. Samuel Brown Wylie, D. D., and Margaret (Watson) Wylie
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EducationCareer: early education at English Academy of Rev. Dr. S. W. Crawford; classical education at the school of Wylie & Engles, Philadelphia; graduated from University of Pennsylvania, 1830
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OriginalNotes: Nov. 1997 IU web page (www.indiana.edu/~libweb/info/history/twylie-bib.html): lists birth date, parents, wife and marriage date (wife was from Germantown, now in city of Philadelphia). In 1836 after some correspondence with Board of Trustees of Indiana College (later IU) and its president Dr. Andrew Wylie [his cousin], he was offered a professorship and at his own request was elected pre tem professor of natural philosphy and chemistry. In the spring of 1837 he left Philadelphia and after 10 days journey reached the University in April and commenced work at opening of 2nd term, May 1...On the death of Andrew Wylie on Nov. 11, 1851, Daniel Read and Theophilus Wylie carried on duties of president until new one was appointed June 3, 1852. [Excerpt from Burton D. Myers Officers of Indiana University, 1820-1950, p. 486]

Indiana Scientists: A Biographical Directory and an Analysis, by Stephen Sargent Visher, 1951, Indiana Academy of Science, p. 185: A.B., A.M., Pennsylvania, 1830. Indiana prof, 1837-52, 1855-86. Author of Indiana University, Its History from 1820-1890.

The Hoosier Genealogist, Sept. 1997: Obituaries of Presbyterian Ministers from the Minutes of the Synod of Indiana of the Presbyterian Church, 1888-1900: Rev. Theophilus Adam Wylie, D. D., grad. of U. of PA, 1830; licensed in 1836; to Indiana College, now University of Indiana, May 1837. To Oxford, OH; back to IU until 1886. D. Bloomington 9 June 1895.

Wylie House home page: he lived there in 1860s; they offer The Life & Diaries of Theophilus A. Wylie (16 page booklet, $3)

His diaries (transcribed and indexed) and correspondence are in the IU Archives.

Circa 1895 cabinet card portrait by Wilhite & Niceley, Bloomington, of Theophilus Adam Wylie and wife Rebecca; Wylie House Museum Image Collection,  Wylie House Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Call number 2005.003.1144. (https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/images/item.htm?id=http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/images/VAC4785/VAC4785-000244&scope=images/VAC4785 : Accessed September 6, 2021)

Ambrotype portrait of Theophilus Adam Wylie in profile; Wylie House Museum Image Collection,  Wylie House Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Call number 2005.003.1885. (http://fedora.dlib.indiana.edu/fedora/get/iudl:1131952/LARGE : Accessed September 6, 2021)

Ambrotype portrait of Theophilus Adam Wylie; Wylie House Museum Image Collection,  Wylie House Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Call number 2005.003.1885. (http://fedora.dlib.indiana.edu/fedora/get/iudl:1131951/LARGE : Accessed September 6, 2021)

Circa 1860s CDV portrait of Theophilus Adam Wylie by Fredricks & Co., New York; Wylie House Museum Image Collection,  Wylie House Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Call number 2005.003.1885. (http://fedora.dlib.indiana.edu/fedora/get/iudl:1128153/LARGE : Accessed September 6, 2021)
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OriginalSource: Daguerreian Society Membership Directory, 1997, p. 56: entry for William J. Lawrence (P.O. Box 976, Bloomington 47402, 812-855-6224) states that he is conservator for restored home where lived the first practitioner of photography in the state of Indiana, starting in Jan. 1841, Theophilus Adam Wylie.

From T. A. Wylie diaries at IU Archives, 
Jan. 3, 1841: Have been busy teaching as usual & getting a daguerreotype apparatus made...Friday AM began to arrange my camera...Saturday busy with the camera obscura.
Jan. 13, 1841: It occurred to me while in a revery that perhaps it would be possible to daguerreotype the moon and planets and then view the plates by a microscope. If this could be done it would be an excellent way of turning the microscope into a telescope.
Apr. 1, 1841: I have much to do this vacation...I want to try my daguerreotype apparatus.
Aug. 8, 1869: Yesterday witnessed the total eclipse of the sun...Had been engaged with Allison endeavoring to photograph the sun, but when the totality came on, we both broke and ran to see it, & let the important moment pass. We had taken several during the progress of the eclipse.
Diary also mentions:
borrowed lens from Cornelius Pering [a gentleman scientist, artist, head of the Monroe Co. Female Seminary, optician; from England]
Got iodine box from Mr. Batterson
Mr. Austin Seward made his iron cup for mercury [Seward, according to Bill Lawrence, was local mechanical genius who had iron foundry in Bloomington]

The Extra Equator, v I, No. 2, Mar. 25, 1841, p. 112:
Heliography--A few days ago we employed a moment of leisure in the College Laboratory, which has been recently built and furnished for the Chair of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy, and is now occupied by Prof. Wylie and his class. That which particularly occupied our attention was the apparatus for heliographic drawing, which Prof. W. has in progress of construction and now nearly finished, and a print of the daguerreotype representing a corner of Ninth and Market streets, Philadelphia. [Describes daguerreotype making, copyright, etc.]
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