DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: WIESE, PETER J. (A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894)
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A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND.
A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894  - Page 1436

        PETER J. WIESE, of Union City, is a son of Ferdinand and Gertrude
(Belke) Wiese, and was born in Darke county, Ohio, December 21, 1843. He
was reared on a farm until eighteen, but had very good opportunities for an
education. He first attended the schools in Darke county, then a German
school at Piqua, Ohio, and next learned bookkeeping at a commercial college
at Dayton, ohio, and in 1863 began to learn telegraphy in the office of the
Bee Line company at Union City, Ind. In November, 1866, he entered the
employ of the same company as night operator, and worked at Marion, Sidney,
Anderson, Fortville and Indianapolis, until May, 1872, when he became train
dispatcher on the Indianapolis division; was promoted to chief dispatcher
in January, 1881, and held the position until September, 1892, when he was
made trainmaster on the Indianapolis division of the "Big 4" for a distance
of 202 miles, having charge of all movements of freight, conductors and
brakemen, and during his services for twenty years has never cost the
company the loss of one cent by disaster. He has at present supervision
over thirty-nine crews, averaging three men each, and over thirty-nine
trains daily, with the assistance of one clerk. Mr. Wiese was married in
1871 to Miss Angie, daughter of John and Maria J. (Williams) Brewster, of
Fortville, Ind., and to this marriage has been born one son -Frank J., at home.
        The parents of Mr. Wiese were both natives of Prussia, who crossed
the ocean to Maryland in 1835, and in 1837 migrated to Ohio, where they
settled in the woods in Darke county, cleared up the land, made two farms
and reared a family of four children, of whom Peter J. is the youngest. The
father, Ferdinand Wiese, died in 1861 at the age of sixty-five years, but
the mother, Gertrude (Belke) Wiese, survived until 1872, when she was
called away at the age of seventy-three. They were members of the Catholic
church of Union City, and were liberal in their contributions to the
erection of the first Catholic church in that place. Joseph Wiese, the
eldest brother of Peter J. (our subject), now lives on the home farm;
Elizabeth, a sister, is the wife of John Altenbach, a farmer, and
Catherine, who was the wife of P.G. Kennedy, died in 1877. Peter J. Wiese
is democratic in politics, and he and his wife are members of the Catholic
church. Mr. Wiese is one of the leading and most trusted employes in the
employ of the "Big 4 railway company, as may be inferred from what has been
said above.


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