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ELIJAH WISE was born in Venango county, Penn., Jan. 19, 1840, and came to Illinois in 1855, also to Iowa in 1857. He enlisted from Winneshiek county, Iowa, in the Third Iowa Infantry, serving four years, three months and thirteen days, spending three months of the time in Andersonville prison, a victim of abuse and suffering. The subject of this sketch came to Jasper county, Mo., in 1866. He married Augusta M. Boaz, July 5, 1871, of Cherokee county, Kas., who was born in Clay county Mo., in 1830. The children are Ella M., and Clara E. Mrs. Wise is a member of the South Methodist Church. Mr. Wise owns a farm of ninety-five acres in township 28, range 34, sections 31 and 36. Thirty-six acres in wheat averaged 23 ¼ bushels, 40 in corn averaged 30 bushels to the acre. There is a good bearing orchard on the farm of one and a half acres. Mr. Wise recalls with great vividness the days he boarded, as he says, at the Hotel de Andersonville, but does not praise the bill of fare. He is a man of public enterprise and calculated to build up a new country with good institutions.