James E. Wise and Ella Blanche Thompson

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Husband James E. Wise ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1870 - Armstrong Co, PA 1
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       Marriage: 1895 1

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Wife Ella Blanche Thompson ^{1 2}

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         Father: Robert H. Thompson (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Margaret A. "Peggy Ann" McCandless (1841-1926) 3

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Children

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1 M Brooks Wise ^{2 4}

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2 M Paul Wise ^{1 2}

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General Notes: Husband - James E. Wise

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He was general manager of the Etna Manufacturing Company, one of Butler's important enterprises, which was engaged in the manufacture of gas and gasoline engines and oil and water pumps. He was a practical machinist and the inventor of certain valuable devices in his line of work.

When he left school he entered the Ball Engine Works at Butler, Pennsylvania, and served his machinist apprenticeship there and then was connected for one year with the Garvin Machine Company, in New York City, where he completed his training. During the two following years he was employed by the firm of Larkin & Palm, at Butler, and from there went to Pittsburgh, and for some years was with the Westinghouse people. When he returned to Butler he bought an interest in the Etna Manufacturing Company and beginning in 1903 was manager of the same and during the following five years tripled the capacity of the plant. He studied his trade on every side and was not contented with being an expert workman and capable executive, but was constantly experimenting and inventing new machines and methods. He was the first man to conceive the ideas which he embodied in several patented devices, notably his reversible belt driver and his pumping and pulling jack.
He and his wife were members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Butler. His fraternal connections were with the Knights of Malta, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1025.

2 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 59.

3 Joseph A. Ferree, The McCandless and Related Families, Pioneers of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Natrona Heights, PA: Self-Published, 1977), Pg 56.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1027.