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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 member of 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 country, 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.