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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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r his supporters. In the year 1887 he became counsel for an electric companyconstructing in Richmond one of the first electric railways in theUnited States. In consequence of this employment, he removedto New York in 1888, where he has since resided and practisedhis profession. A great national controversy arose between the electric rail-ways and the telephone companies. Mr. Wise had charge of this,and for several years was engaged in it almost exclusively, andbecame a leading legal authority upon subjects pertaining tothat controversy. Recently he has turned his attention togeneral practice, particularly to railroad reorganizations and cor-porations. He has also been prominent in politics as a Repub-lican and in society, is a member of several leading clubs, andhas a national reputation as a campaign orator. Of late Mr, Wise has devoted his leisure time to literary pur-suits, and produced two books, Diomed and The End of anEra, which have been widely read and added to his reputation.
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PETER MANUEL WISE AMONG the many settlers of German extraction in Pennsyl-J\- vania, there were, in the first half of this century, twofamilies, named respectively Wise and Croop. A son of theformer, Joseph Wise, a farmer by occupation, married a daughterof the latter, Elizabeth Croop, and they, in 1840, removed fromPennsylvania and were among the earliest settlers at Clarence,Erie County, New York. There, on March 7, 1851, a son wasborn to them, to whom the names of Peter Manuel were given. The boy grew up on his fathers farm, attending the localpublic school. A course at the Parker Classical Institute fol-lowed, and then, adopting the healing art as his life-work, youngWise went to Buffalo, and entered the medical department ofthe university of that city. It had been intended that he shouldhave a full college education, and he was prepared for matricula-tion at the age of fifteen years. But the death of his fatheraltered his plans. He spent a year as clerk in a store in Buffalo,and

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