Source: "Alabama and Statistical Register", 1903, State of Alabama Department of Archives and History, Compiled by Thomas M. Owen, Director, Montgomery, AL, Brown Printing Company, 1903 Page 26 Second District Counties - Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Montgomery, Pike and Wilcox (9 counties) ARIOSTO APPLING WILEY, Democrat of Montgomery, was born in Barbour County, and reared in Pike county, Ala.; is the son of Judge James McCaleb Wiley and wife Cornelia Ann Appling of Troy; graduated at Emory and Henry College, Virginia; in 1872 he located in the city of Montgomery and engaged in the practice of law; was several terms a member of the Alabama legislature, serving in both the house and senate; In Jun, 1898, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Regiment United States Volunteer infantry, one of the ten regiments organized by special act of Congress, and served an enlistment of several months at Santiago de Cuba, acting a greater part of the time as General Lawton's chief of staff; was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress without opposition, receiving 12,496 votes, being about 2,500 more than the Democratic Presidential electors received at that election. Re-elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress. On November 6, 1877, he was married to Mittie A. Noble, of Montgomery, Ala.