George C. Wiley graduated from the Lanark high school and later in a local business college. In 1903 he began
an apprenticeship to learn the trade of druggist in the store of Joseph L. Bidlock for the ensuing six years and
at the end of that time passed examinations as a pharmacist. In 1908 he came to Twin Falls and entered the
employ of A. N. Sprague as drug clerk. Here he became acquainted with his partner, Howard Martin Skeels.
July 8, 1911, they organized the Skeels-Wiley Drug Company, which purchased the business of Goldsmith &
Ackerman, formerly one of the leading drug stores in Twin Falls.