BIO:  JOHN P. WISE, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 545-546
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    JOHN P. WISE, one of the much respected citizens and substantial farmers of
  West Pennsboro township, was born in Cumberland county, a son of John Wise.

    Jacob Wise, grandfather of John P. Wise, was born in Virginia, and came to
  Cumberland county in young manhood. After a residence of ten years he went to
  Ohio, and died in the city of Dayton. His children were: Mollie died in
  Dickinson township, Cumberland county; Annie died in Illinois; John; and
  Joseph, Rebecca, Hannah, Susan and Hettie, all of whom died in Ohio.

    John Wise, son of Jacob, was born in Cumberland county, and followed an
  agricultural life in Dickinson township, and later in Pennsboro township. He
  married Rebecca Goodhart, and they had a family of three children, viz:
  Harriet A., born in Penn township, married Peter Hess, of Cumberland county,
  who died in Ohio, and she has since resided with our subject in West
  Pennsboro township; Jacob, born in 1832, died in West Pennsboro township, at
  the age of nineteen years; and our subject, the youngest of the family.

    John P. Wise received his education in Penn and West Pennsboro townships.
  At the age of twenty years he embarked in a mercantile business in Penn
  township, and

    546  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

  three years later he was drafted into the army for service in the Civil
  war. He entered Company F, 158th Regiment, under Capt. Diehl, as a private,
  and was promoted to be sergeant. After being stationed six months at Newbern,
  N. C., the regiment was ordered to Washington. During the battle of
  Gettysburg, Mr. Wise was on guard duty along the river. In 1863 he was
  mustered out of the service at Chambersburg, and returned to Cumberland
  county. He accepted a clerkship in a store at Newville, where he continued
  twelve years, when he bought the old Heffleboro farm, consisting of 100 acres
  of good land. Here he has engaged in farming ever since his widowed sister
  came to live with him. He never married. He and sister reared a girl named
  Katie Steel, who grew to amiable young womanhood with them and married John
  Trego, and they now have one son, Melvin Wise, and reside in West Pennsboro
  township. Mr. Wise is a Republican and has taken a very lively interest in
  political matters in his section. He served on the jury commission of
  Cumberland county for three years, has been school director, and has been
  offered all, and served in, a number of other local offices.

    Both Mr. Wise and sister are members of the United Presbyterian Church of
  Newville, in which he has been a trustee for fifteen years. He is also
  superintendent of the Sunday-school. A life of integrity and devotion to duty
  has made him a most highly considered citizen of this community and he numbers
  his friends by the number of his acquaintances.