Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....WISELOGLE, Frederick Yager 2002
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association, Volume 38  December 2002  Number 3; submitted with permission from editor, Grayden D. Slowins
Frederick Yager Wiselogle, 90, widower of Louise (Ryder) Wiselogle, husband of 
Charlotte (Pike) Wiselogle, father of Elizabeth Haskins, William R. Wiselogle, 
Ann Dee Wiselogle and Margaret Wiselogle, son of Florence (Yager) & Andrew J. 
(Andy) Wiselogle.  Andy Wiselogle was the son of Fred & Emma Wiselogle, farmers 
near Springport.  Florence was born and raised on a farm near Lake Odessa, 
taught Bippley Rural School and then at Albion, where she met and married 
Andy.  After a career as Ticket Master for Michigan Central Railroad in Albion, 
Lansing, Ann Arbor & Detroit, Andy retired in 1940 and he and Florence built a 
home on Jordan Lake in Lake Odessa.  He was the first person I ever knew to put 
up a "squirrel crossing" sign on his street.  Florence was the daughter of Fred 
& Margaret Yager, who had retired from their farm to a home on Sixth Avenue.  
Maggie's father was Thomas Leak, pioneer Sebewa farmer, whose farm included 
what became the Baptist Churchyard and West Sebewa Cemetery.  He also had 
retired to a home in Lake Odessa, and in 1972, at age 60, Fred Wiselogle 
followed this long tradition and built his retirement home on McArthur Street 
near the lake, where he was to live for the next 30 years.
Fred Wiselogle wrote his autobiography in 1992 and we printed it in six issues 
of the Recollector.  Much of this story comes from his own words.  Born in 
Albion, May 18, 1912; he began kindergarten in Lansing at Clinton School, 
across the street from home at Pennsylvania and Michigan.  The next year the 
family moved to Ann Arbor, at 403 Church Street, directly across from the main 
University campus.  He graduated from High School there in 1928, got a 
bachelor's at the University in 1932, master's in 1934, Doctorate of Science in 
1936, majoring in organic chemistry.  His first job was teaching organic 
chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for $1400 a year.
During World War II he trained Privates and Generals in the chemistry of 
explosives.  Then he was assigned to organize and direct research on 
replacements for quinine as a cure for malaria.  After the war Fred transferred 
to the Squibb Institute for Medical Research in New Brunswick, NJ, where he 
continued the antimalarial research to find a cure for tuberculosis.  His drug -
 Isonicotinic acid hydrazide - marketed under the names Isoniazid or Nydrazide 
thru a joint effort by Squibb and Hoffman-LaRoache, proved safe and effective.  
Tuberculosis, the principal killer in the United States as late as the 1940s, 
has been all but eliminated, and millions of lives have been saved.  He 
received the prestigious Lasker Award from President Harry Truman - and found 
it ironic that as a life-long Republican, the only President whose hand he got 
to shake was a Democrat.  He also served as President of the New York Academy 
of Sciences in 1961.
Retired in Lake Odessa, Fred served on the Lakewood School Board, the governing 
boards of the Michigan Association of School Boards, Lake Odesssa Ambulance, 
Lake Odessa Arts Commission, Jordan Lake Watershed Association, Lakewood Waste 
Water Authority, Lake Odessa Historical Society, Lake Odessa Centennial 
Commission, Lake Odessa Community Library, Lake Odessa Lions Club, and Ionia 
County Republicans, and supported Boy Scouts and the Village Council.  He was a 
friend of this and previous editor of Recollector and paid member to 2012, his 
100th birthday.  Ann Slowins and Fred Wiselogle were once the only people who 
showed up for a new Great Books Discussion Group!  

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