BIO:  ISAAC HARTMAN WISE, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 754-755
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    ISAAC HARTMAN WISE has been engaged at farming and threshing in Middlesex
  township, Cumberland county, throughout his active life, and is a prosperous
  and respected citizen of that community. He was born Jan. 12, 1858, near
  Orrstown, Franklin Co., Pa., son of Isaac Wise, who was born Jan. 15, 1822,
  near Falling Spring, Franklin county. He resided in his native county until
  he came to near Carlisle, Cumberland county, in 1876, and followed farming
  and threshing all his life. He was a highly respected man, and a devout
  memberof the Lutheran Church. Isaac Wise married Mary Jane Hartman, of near
  Orrstown, Franklin county, who was born about 1827, and died in 1897,
  surviving her husband, who passed away Aug. 7, 1894. They had a family of
  seven sons and three daughters, namely: Isaac H., Jacob K., Samuel B., Sarah
  C., William H., Emanuel S., Adam, Joseph Elmer, Anna and Carrie.

    Isaac H. Wise was about ten years old when his father moved to near
  Greencastle, Franklin county, and thence they removed to a location northwest
  of Carlisle, Cumberland county. He received his education in the district
  schools of the various localities where the family lived, and always helped
  his father faithfully until he attained his majority, when he struck out for
  himself, along the same lines. Mr. Wise is a pleasant, frank man, cordial and
  friendly in his intercourse with all, and he has made many friends in business
  as well as in private life. By industry and application he has prospered, so
  that he may now be ranked among the well-to-do men of his township, and he
  deserves all the good fortune that has come to him. He is popular among all
  his acquaintances, and has attained considerable prominence as one of the
  workers of the Democratic party in his locality.

    Mr. Wise married Miss Anna Rutz, a lady whose pleasant disposition and
  Christian character have won her universal esteem, and three children have
  blessed this union: Mary, born in August, 1879, died young; Isaac Raymond was
  born Dec. 8, 1884; Luther H. was born July 4, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Wise belong
  to the Lutheran Church.

    John Rutz, father of Mrs. Wise, was born Feb. 13, 1827, in Hoxfahl,
  Germany, and in his twenty-fifth year, with others who hoped to find better
  advantages in this coun-

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  try, sailed for America, arriving in the United States March 8, 1851. He took
  a position with William M. Henderson (now deceased), who conducted a mill in
  Cumberland county, Pa., as miller, continuing with him for twenty years,
  after which he took the Cave Hill farm, which he conducted until his death.
  He was an honest, industrious and conscientious man, and was respected by
  all. For several years he served as school director in his district. On Dec.
  28, 1853, he married Susan Swanger, whose mother was a sister of Gov. Ritner,
  of Pennsylvania, and they became the parents of six children: William, Clara,
  Anna, Lizzie, Harry and Ida.