Thank all of you for your prompt response to my inquirey. Yes, my ancestor, Henry Wise was married to Barbara Rohrer, daughter of Frederick Rohrer and Catherine Diemer. To my knowledge, Henry Wise and Barbara Rohrer had the following children: John H. Wise was also a Silversmith and Clockmaker in Greensburg. John H. Wise was active in the militia circles. He served in the PA legislature, resigned and then went to Brookville, Jefferson County, PA where he went in to business with one of the members of the Greensburg Jack family. They started a brick kiln and had large stands of forestry and saw mills in Jefferson County. Both Mr. Jack and John H. Wise returned to Greensburg before their deaths. I have not found any evidence of John H. Wise's having married, but he did deed a house to a Mary Wise who's ?guardian? was a Mrs. Biggert. I believe this Mary Wise then married a Mr. Hare, or possibly Mrs. Biggert married a Mr. Hare. This Mary Wise may have been the child of a Frederick Wise who died and John H. Wise may have been the guardian. I am assuming it was his relation of some sort. I have also wondered if John H. Wise was her father and the Mrs. Biggert her grandmother????? Pure speculation as a possibl! e relationship. I believe Mrs. Biggert may have married at the same time Mary Wise married. Sorry to be so sketchy, so many notes ago! Frederick A. Wise was a newspaper man in Greensburg circa 1820. He had married in Baltimore. He then migrated to Palmyra, Missouri circa 1830 where he started another newspaper that did not succeed. He then spent the remainder of his life farming in St. Louis County, Missouri. His estate demonstrated an impressive estate of classical literature. My direct ancestor, Jacob Michael Wise was an attorney in Greensburg. He then held the seat in the PA legislature that his brother, John H. Wise had vacated. Jacob Michael Wise was married to Margaret Covode Williams, the daughter of ?Elizabeth Covode? and Nathaniel/Nathan Williams. Margaret Covode's grandfather was Garret Covode, her cousin was John Covode, a member of the US House of Representatives during the Civil War. My gr-gr-grandmother was Jane Williams Wise, daughter of Jacob Wise and Margaret Williams, she married Thomas Leonard/Larned Williams, a cooper from Rhode Island. Her sister was Cecelia Wise Donohoe, wife of Thomas Donohoe and mother of Westmoreland County's first native born Catholic priest. Jane Wise Williams' brother was William Williams Wise who was also a newspaper publisher and an attorney in Brookville, Jefferson County, PA. He died of wounds sustained in a battle in the Civil War, (or as my daughter who was raised in Virginia states, "the War! of Northern Aggression.") She had a sister who was Margaret Wilson, a brother Wilson Knott Wise who was also a printer, another sister, Amelia Wise Uncapher, another brother, Elisha Robinson Wise who was also an attorney. I have been told that Mary Wise, sister of Jacob Michael Wise married a man named Saylor. I have not to date checked this. The family oral history has our Wise ancestors as having been from Virginia. Cecelia Wise Donohoe's biography in Boucher's History of Westmoreland County has her quoted as saying Henry Wise was related to the Governor Henry Alexander Wise, the governor who signed the death warrant for John Brown of Harper's Ferry fame. My oral history did not contain that element. I have been intrigued as to why Governor Henry Alexander Wise, from the Eastern Shore of Virginia attended and graduated from Washington College (now Washington & Jefferson College), in Washington, PA. I believe he graduated circa 1820. I apologize for sketchy information. I have been assembling the pieces for many years and those pieces are in spiral notebooks. If any of you have any putty to fill the chinks in this tale, I would enjoy hearing from you. Shirley