BIO: William L. WISE, Clearfield County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/ NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm _____________________________________________________________ From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr., Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 646 & 649. _____________________________________________________________ WILLIAM L. WISE, a foremost citizen of Knox township, who, for the past fourteen years has held the responsible office of township treasurer, resides on his well improved farm of 100 acres, which is situated three miles west of Boardman, Pa. He was born in Ferguson township, Clearfield county, March 28, 1855, and is a son of William and Jane (Caldwell) Wise. William Wise was born in Center county, Pa., a son of Conrad Wise. The family moved to Pike township, Clearfield county, in his early manhood and he remained with his parents until his marriage to Jane Caldwell, a daughter of Matthew Caldwell, a prominent farmer of this section. After marriage, William Wise and his wife settled in Ferguson township, where he acquired a farm of 150 acres, a great part of which he cleared by his own industry. This farm now belongs to the estate of the late Curtis Bell. William Wise also engaged in lumbering, and spent all of his life after marriage, in Ferguson township, where his death occurred in December, 1876, at the age of sixty-five years. He was a consistent member of the Lutheran church. In politics he was a Democrat but never entered into any contest for office. His widow lived to be eighty-four years of age and their remains rest side by side at New Millport. She was reared in the Presbyterian faith. Their children, ten in number, were as follows: D. A., who is a resident of Altoona, married Ruth McCracken; Susan, who is the wife of James R. Cupples and lives at Lumber City; Abbie, who is the widow of William R. Curry, of Pike township; Lavina, who is the wife of James Ferguson, lives in Ferguson township; Maggie, who is deceased, was the wife of James R. Bloom; George W., who died young; Eliza, who is deceased, was the wife of John N. Hile, also deceased; Elmira E., who is the widow of Z. L. Hoover, resides at Clearfield; an infant son, deceased; and William L. William L. Wise, with his brothers and sisters, attended the public schools in Ferguson township and afterward assisted his father on the home farm until his own marriage, ever since which time he has lived on his present farm in Knox township, all of which is under cultivation except ten acres in valuable timber. He is not only one of the successful agriculturists of this section but he is also a very prominent and poplar citizen. Since reaching manhood he has been interested in public matters in his township and on the Democratic ticket has been many times elected to office, serving as treasurer, collector and auditor. He is one of the stockholders of the Farmers' and Traders' National Bank of Clearfield. In January, 1876, Mr. Wise was married first to Miss Samantha Glenn, who left one child, Vada. He was married second to Miss Olivia Mokel, a daughter of D. E. Mokel, of New Millport, and two sons were born to them: Lester Bryant, who died when aged twenty-three months; and Athol Verne, who, for three years has been in a brokerage office in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of Bucknell University, and is married and resides at East Orange, N. J.