John Everett Wismer

A Brief History of Jacob Wismer and a Complete Genealogical Family Register With Biographies of His Descendants from the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time By A J Fretz, Eli Wismer

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IV Jacob Wismer bn in Bucks Co Pa Nov 9 1798 Mrd Elizabeth Wurts Feb 3 1823 She was bn Sept 27 1801 died in fall of 1850 Farmer Children Delilah Emeline Anna Enos Maria Jacob Abraham Lewis Abraham Jacob mrd second wife Julia Curtis Dec 2 1852 V Delilah Wismer bn in York Co Ont Aug 31

V Jacob Everett Wismer bn July 9 1835 Mrd Sarah Adaline Morrison of Painesville Ohio Oct 20 1857 She died Mar 4 1874 PO Markham Ont Children Laura John George Ada

Mr Wismer mrd second wife Mary Coleman Oct 3 1876 She died Feb 12 1890 One child Lizzie Mr Wismer left home in 1852 went to Ohio where he remained until 1857 when he removed to Nanti coke Ont In 1861 he returned to Painesville Ohio and later went south and worked in the Government Navy yard as ship carpenter In the winter of 1870 he moved to Allegan Mich and engaged in farming He has also been occupied as merchant and fruit grower He has also traveled quite extensively having traveled from the CPR limits to the southern boundaries of the US and from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts He is also a fisherman of note having made excursions among the lakes of Canada and taken many of the speckled beauties and other varieties and aside from his other duties he has also contributed articles to the press

VI John Everett Wismer bn at Port Dover Ont Nov 24 1861 General salesman in Chicago 111 S