My WISE family came from VA. to Georgia and parts beyound. Bill At 11:01 ------- 4/8/99 -0500, you wrote: >I'm new to the Wise list...I'm looking for information on the WISE clan >from Winona, Minnesota. If anyone has WISE ancestors from Winona, >Minnesota, please contact me. Thanks! > >Jacob Wise GERMANY > New York > Missouri > Minnesota. > >Jacob Wise (b. abt 1834, d. bef. 1880) married Catherine Schmidt/Smith >and they had two children, Julius (b. 1857) and Margaret (b. 1862), in New >York. They moved to Utica, Livingston County, Missouri and had four more >children, George, Caroline, John Martin, and Thomas Edward. Jacob Wise >served in the Civil War. Jacob died before 1880, because Catherine Wise and >the children are listed without him on the 1880 Missouri census. Catherine >and family came to Winona, Minnesota in about 1882-3 and are listed on the >1885 Winona census. Several of the Wises worked for the Railroad as >blacksmiths, yardmen, or hostlers. > > >