Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Wiseman, J. A. 1849 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  J A. WISEMAN, Robinson, of the firm of Wiseman & Brubaker, of the Robinson
Planning Mills, was born January 24, 1849, in Cincinnati, where he grew to
manhood with good facilities for education, and made good use of the
opportunity. He took up his trade, carpentering, at the age of fifteen, and at
the age of nineteen he began contracting and doing a regular business for
himself. He located in Robinson in 1875. He bought a planing mill and has run
that in connection with a lumber yard and regular contracting and building
business. He was married February 3, 1871, in Crawford County, to Miss Lucy C.
Sheets, born in Terre Haute, Ind., July 5, 1848, daughter of John and Susan
(Bayless) Sheets. This union has been blessed with four children-Minnie May.
Maudie, William F., Mary Ella.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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