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- This gentleman was born in Washington township, Morris
Co., N. J., June 14, 1830. In 1832 he removed with his
father to Livingston Co., N. Y., the father, Andrew Wise,
locating on a farm. In 1855 the son, who until that time
had remained on the hoiue-farm, decided to search for a suit-
able location in the West for a future home for himself and
wife, he having, on the 22d of March, 1855, married Miss
Harriet J. Read, daughter of Ezekiel S. and Delilah Read,
who was born in Sparta, Livingston Co., N. Y., Jan. 12,
1832. Turning their faces westward, they began a long
journey, and in the same year they were married located
in Hamilton township, Van Buren Co., Mich., on one hundred acres of land, which Mr. Wise purchased and which
is still their home to it sixty acres have since been added.
Mr. and Mrs. Wise are the parents of two children, Eda
D., born Nov. 2, 1857, and H. Evelyn, born Nov. 15, 1863
both are living at home with their parents. Mr. Wise is
also the owner of one hundred and forty acres of land in
Oakland Co., Mich. Politically he is a Republican, and
has filled several township offices. In religious matters he
is liberal. He has been an active farmer through life, and
has devoted much time to the improvement of his stock
sheep, of which he at present has a fine flock, and swine
being his specialties.
(History of Berrien and Van Buren counties, Michigan.
Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885., Johnson, Crisfield. Ensign, D. W., & co., Philadelphia., 1880)
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