I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

He entered the Navy on 2 April 1803 and was assigned to the schooner Enterprise in the Mediterranean Squadron. After attaining the rates of boatswain boatswain's mate and then a reduction to quartermaster Wiley took part in the daring raid led by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur Jr. Quartermaster Wiley was transferred to the brig Scourge soon thereafter and this is where his documentary trail ends.