BIO: John Wise Wetzel, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

400  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  HON. JOHN WISE WETZEL, lawyer, Carlisle, was born at that place, 
April 20, 1850, a son of George and Sarah E. (Shade) Wetzel.  The 
subject of our sketch completed a good common school education, and 
took a preparatory course of study in Prof. Robert Sterrett's Academy 
here, and graduated from Dickinson College, in 1874.  Meantime he had 
entered the study of law in the office of the late C. E. Maglaughlin, 
Esq., and was admitted to the bar a short time before receiving his 
decree from Dickinson College.  After his admission he located in 
practice here, and has since been deservedly successful.  He has always 
been an ardent Democrat, and has taken considerable interest in the 
placing of able men before the people for office.  In 1876 he was 
elected as a representative to the Democratic State Convention from 
Cumberland County; in 1882 he was elected to preside as chairman of the 
county executive committee of his party for Cumberland County; and in 
1881 was elected district attorney for the county.  He married Lizzie, 
youngest daughter of John and Elizabeth Wolf, the union being blessed 
with a son, Frank.  Mr. Wetzel has succeeded through life by his own 
exertions, being a self-made man.  He gives liberally to all worthy 
objects, and is one of the active workers in the development of the 
social and industrial interests of Carlisle.  He is a member of the 
Belles Letters, and Omega Chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity of 
Dickinson College; is a member of the board of trustees of Franklin and 
Marshall College; solicitor for the Board of Trade and Building & Loan 
Association of Carlisle; solicitor for the Harrisburg & Potomac 
Railroad, etc., etc.  He is a worthy Mason and a member of the K. of P.  
Mr. and Mrs. Wetzel are regular attendants of the services of the 
Reformed Church of the United States.