BIO: WILLIAM H. WISE, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 459-460
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    WILLIAM H. WISE, of Lemoyne, Cumberland county, was born Nov. 12, 1843, in
  Kishacoquillas Valley, Mifflin county, Pa., a son of an old resident farmer of
    
    460  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
    
  that locality. His education was obtained in his native place and he was
  reared to farm work.
    
    In 1861 Mr. Wise was one of the first of that great army, of the very
  flower of the land, that responded to the President's call for defenders of
  the Union, enlisting for three months in Company D, 5th P. V. I. After
  serving out his time he came home and again engaged in farming, until 1863,
  when he re-enlisted, this time entering the 22d P. V. C., for six months. At
  Chambersburg he was detailed to the United States Signal Corps, and located
  at Maryland Heights, performed the duties required of him, and was honorably
  discharged a second time, Feb. 5, 1864. Mr. Wise worked for a time at
  railroading, but as the war still continued he enlisted, for the third time,
  in Company A, 101st P. V. I., and served until June 25, 1865, when he was
  mustered out at Newbern, N. C. He returned to railroading and was fireman on
  his old division when, in 1867, he was sent to Huntingdon, to take charge of
  the roundhouse there. In 1872 he began firing again, and on March 4, 1873, he
  was promoted to freight engineer on the same division, as a reward of his
  close attention to duty and fidelity to his employers. In 1879 he left the
  company and for a few months worked on the new postoffice building at
  Harrisburg, and then went into the Altoona railway shops. In 1880 he went to
  Boiling Springs and ran an engine on the Harrisburg & Potomac, now the
  Reading, railroad. On March 14, 1887, he became connected with the roundhouse
  of the Cumberland Valley railroad at White Hill, and was put in charge of the
  engine house March 25, 1890, a position he has held most efficiently ever
  since.
    
    In 1865 Mr. Wise was married (first) to Penelope A. Orner, daughter of
  William and Matilda Orner, the latter still surviving. Four children were
  born to this marriage: Maggie, Mrs. Duncan, of Columbus, Ohio; Minnie C.,
  Mrs. Keathley, of Altoona, Pa.; Harry, clerk of the "Brant Hotel," at
  Altoona; and Herbert, a railroad man. In 1882, at Boiling Springs, Mr. Wise
  was married (second) to Anna M. Scharf, daughter of Jacob Scharf; her mother
  died when she was quite young. The children of this marriage are: George H.,
  Frank, Earl and Hazel, all at home.
    
    Both Mr. and Mrs. Wise are consistent members of the Christian Church at
  Lemoyne, of which he is a trustee. Politically, he is identified with the
  Republican party. He belongs to the G. A. R., Post No. 58, Harrisburg, and
  takes a great interest in all that affects legislation in favor of the old
  heroes. For more than thirty years he has been a member of the fraternal
  order of the Brotherhood of Engineers.
    
    Mr. Wise is a son of Samuel and Ann Eliza (Etter) Wise, the former of whom
  was born in Lancaster county, and was a shoemaker by trade. The latter was
  the daughter of Jacob Etter, who kept the "Block House Hotel," on Paxton
  street, Harrisburg, and ran the ferry across the river before the building of
  bridges. Soon after his marriage Samuel Wise settled in Huntingdon county,
  where he followed his trade and farmed, and there his wife died in 1887. He
  passed away six years later. Their children were: Ada, Mrs. Metz, who removed
  to Ohio and died there; Miss Mary Jane; William H., of this sketch; Ella, Mrs.
  Grimison, who lived and died in Huntingdon county; Annie, Mrs. Myers,
  deceased; and Jerome and George, of Council Bluffs, Iowa.