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Excerpt from Lake County, Indiana, From 1834 to 1872 This line enters the county from the west in St. John's Township, in Section 36, a mile and a half north of the line due west from Crown Point, passing north of the head waters of West Creek in this section; it runs near the village of St. John's, and passes in a winding south easterly direction across Hanover Township to a point half a mile north of the head of Cedar Lake. From thence it winds along the ridges of that strip of woodland' in Centre Township, its main direction eastward, passes south of Fancher's Lake, between that and the Mill' Pond, comes out upon the prairie about one mile south of Crown Point and enters School Grove. It ...
Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana, With a Compendium of History, 1834-1904: A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation It appears also that the Governor gave to his name at that time the English form which most of the family have since retained. Adam W'ise was, when he died, October 5, 1833, in the eighty - second year of his age, and had eleven children, sixty-three grandchildren, and one hundred and thirty-three great - grandchildren, and it is claimed that his descendants are now in nearly every state of the Union. The Wise family is not one to become extinct. About the Publisher Forgot...
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