He was promoted to first lieutenant of Volunteers in 1862 and mustered out with the rank of brevet major in 1864 by the consolidation of his regiment.

Actively involved in politics, he was also president of one of the juries at the International Exposition in Brussels and a member of the superior jury appointed by the Governor of New Jersey a member of the commission for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, Mo., in 1904.

[1] After another unsuccessful bid for reelection in 1910, he moved on to work with his family in founding a publishing company in New York City.

In 1876, he entered the publishing business with his father and brother, co-founding a firm under the name of John Wiley & Sons.

The family company began by publishing works by authors such as Cooper, Emerson, Melville, and Poe.