Otho S. Wooley was a sawmiller from Shelby County. Morgan Lumber Company of Center sold some of its sawmill equipment, perhaps from either its mill at Neuville or at Clark's Switch, to L. R. Bagwell and Otho S. Wooley sometime in 1909. The equipment included the Morgan sawmill, one blacksmith shop, one engine, and seven boilers. By November of 1909, they were mortgaging 260,000 feet of lumber to S. H. Matthews.
In the 1910 census, Otho S. Wooley is enumerated as a “sawmiller” at Precinct 2, residence 93, at Shelbyville.
On 28 June 1910 O. S. Wooley took a mortgaged from J. M. Baggett on all the lumber and railroad ties at the sawmill site of Wooley's sawmill at Bland Lake, three yokes of (six) oxen, a wagon, and all the lumber to be cut.