Born in Coburg, Germany, April 28, 1847. He came to the United States with his parents in 1852, locating in Ohio near Cleveland. Mr. Wise has been very successful in business because he has carried on a legitimate trade. He became president of the State Bank of Cedar Falls in 1894. He is also president of the Cedar Falls Building, Loan and Savings Association, the Cedar Falls Canning Company, the Monarch Feeder and Stacker Company and is a stockholder in several other large manufacturing and business enterprises. Mr. Wise has been prominently identified with every important public enterprise and improvement in Cedar Falls. He has contributed liberally to nearly all of them and has always been ready to assist in promoting anything and everything that was for the good of the people of Cedar Falls and Black Hawk County. The Republican Party has had energetic service and liberal support from Mr. Wise ever since he became a voter. He was a member of the board of education in Cedar Falls for several years and was for two terms mayor of the city. In 1899 he was unanimously nominated by the republicans and elected to represent Black Hawk County in the Twenty-eighth General Assembly. He devoted his efforts mainly to securing a liberal appropriation for the State Normal School in Cedar Falls and was highly successful. Mr. Wise was married April 28th, 1869, to Miss Susan A. Parmelee of Clinton, New York.
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