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	Henry Wise Wood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Wise Wood (May 31, 1860-June 10, 1941) was born in Missouri but in 1905 moved to Alberta and became president of the United Farmers of Alberta.
		A school in Calgary, Henry Wise Wood Senior High, was named after him.
		Wise Wood became well known as the main theorist and head of the radical Albertan branch of the wave of agrarian discontent that was sweeping Canada at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Wise_Wood (351 words)

	Henry Wise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Wise (1653- 1738) was an English gardener and landscape architect apprenticed to George London at Brompton Nursery.
		For the American political figure, see Henry A. Wise.
		The two later worked as partners on Hampton Court, Chelsea Hospital, Longleat, Chatsworth, Melbourne Hall, Wimpole Hall and Castle Howard, drawing inspiration from contemporaries in France and the Netherlands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Wise (120 words)

	Biography: Henry C. Wise
		HENRY C. Henry C. Wise, ex-educator and practical farmer and mechanic of Fall Creek Township, Henry County, Indiana, was born near Lewisville on Flat Rock creek, this County, June 3, 1855, and is a son of Peter and Matilda (Bouch) Wise, natives of Pennsylvania.
		Peter Wise was a farmer and for five years resided near Cadiz where his death occurred when he was seventy-five years old; he was survived by his widow about nine years, her death taking place at the present home of her son, Henry.C., when she was about eighty.
		Wise settled on the old place in 1889 and at once began making the necessary improvements to make the farm a profitable and comfortable one to live upon, clearing up the unimproved part, laying about two hundred rods of tiling and erecting modem and substantial buildings, his barn being 36x87 feet, with basement.
	www.geneabios.com /henrywise.htm (734 words)

	HarpWeek Elections 1860 Biographies
		Henry Wise was born in Drummondtown (now Accomac) on Virginia’s Eastern Shore to Sarah Cropper Wise and John Wise, a Federalist legislator and lawyer.
		Wise began his political life voting for Andrew Jackson in 1828 and was nominated by the Jacksonian Democrats for Congress in 1833.
		Wise was a major voice at the Virginia constitutional convention of 1850-1851 and helped apportion the legislature in a more equitable fashion.
	elections.harpweek.com /1860/bio-1860-Full.asp?UniqueID=18&Year=1860 (676 words)

	A beach house fit for a president - Eastern Shore News - delmarvanow.com
		John S. Wise died in 1913 and the next owner was his son Henry A. Wise (1874-1968), who bore the name of his famous grandfather.
		Former Governor and Congressman Henry A. Wise built the first part of this long-lost mansion, Kiptopeke, at the Eastern Shore's southern tip.
		This particular northerner was no "come-here," but the son of Henry A. Wise (1806-1876), Congressman, Governor, Confederate General, and one of the Shore's most famous personages.
	www.delmarvanow.com /easternshore/stories/20060104/2237895.html (1998 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Henry Aitken Wise, the foremost directory publisher of his time in New Zealand and Australia, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 28 December 1835.
		Henry Wise died at Dunedin on 16 June 1922; Elizabeth Wise had predeceased him by some 12 years.
		Wise's regional directories were successful as business ventures because they served the immediate needs of scattered, highly mobile and rapidly growing populations on both sides of the Tasman.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=1W34&related=false (642 words)

	Wise County
		Named after Henry A. Wise, a U.S. Senator from Virginia who supported Texas annexation, Wise was later governor and a Confederate States of America General.
		Wise County was one of the Texas counties that voted against secession from the United States.
		The Wise County Courthouse is now in the National register, and carries the medallion and plaque attesting to its historic value in the State of Texas.
	www.sheriff.co.wise.tx.us /wisecoun.htm (547 words)

	A Lecture on John Brown
		Craig M. Simpson, A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia (Chapel Hill:
		Governor Henry A. Wise of Virginia (1855-1860) was a figure of some national repute by 1859.
		James P. Hambleton, A Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise, with a history of the political campaign in Virginia in 1855.
	www.libraries.wvu.edu /theses/Attfield/HTML/Wise.html (792 words)

	Descendants of Henry H. Wise
		2. HENRY HARDIN2 WISE (HENRY H.1) was born 01 26 1832 in Jefferson or Bullitt Co.,Kentucky, and died 12 10 1901 in Webster Co.,Kentucky.
		1. HENRY H.1 WISE was born 01 23 1800 in Ind.,Ky., Va.?, and died 06 11 1869 in Webster Co.,Kentucky.
		3. SARA KATHERINE3 WISE (HENRY HARDIN2, HENRY H.1) was born 04 18 1868 in Webster County, Kentucky, and died 12 01 1941 in Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky. She married ELIJAH SPENCER MELTON in Sebree, Webster, Kentucky, son of ARCHIBALD DIXON MELTON and MARY SELLARS.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Shores/9291/descHHW.html (422 words)

	WISE, HENRY A. - LoveToKnow Article on WISE, HENRY A.
		(C. WISE, HENRY ALEXANDER (1806-1876), American politician and soldier, was born at Drummondtown (or Accomac), Accomack county, Virginia, on the 3rd of December 1806.
		WISE, HENRY A. - LoveToKnow Article on WISE, HENRY A. (y.
		John Brown's raid occurred during his term, and Wise refused to reprieve Brown after sentence had been passed.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WISE_HENRY_A_.htm (1328 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: WISE COUNTY
		Wise County was officially established by legislative act on January 23, 1856, and was named in honor of Henry A. Wise, a United States Congressman from Virginia, who, during the 1840s, supported the annexation
		The average elevation of Wise County is 800 feet above sea level, and two-thirds of the county is drained by the West Fork of the Trinity River.
		Wise County is in northwestern Texas, forty miles south of the Oklahoma border.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/hcw14.html (1974 words)

	A Lecture on John Brown
		Wise was lean, tall and cadaverous, with vehemence and tones not unlike John Randolph's, and a steel-spring energy, that despite feeble health, never bent or broke.
		Wise was the undoubted dictator of the Tyler Administration.
		Wise, of Virginia, was the fearless knight, who did most to put down Know-Nothingism ten years later.
	www.libraries.wvu.edu /theses/Attfield/HTML/Wise_Forney.html (2160 words)

	garner.html
		Wise, Henry A. Seven Decades of the Union.
		Political Compromise and the Protection of Slavery: Henry A. Wise and the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850-1.
		Wise was elected governor of Virginia from 1856-1860.
	srnels.people.wm.edu /antrichf95/garner.html (1654 words)

	A HOLE IN THE FLOOR
		Henry controlled the east wing and what would be the main building, but not the west wing, which was to house the library.
		Henry believed Baird to be the source of the leak, and his words demonstrate his sometimes imperious attitude and the narrow line to which Baird had to hew.
		Although Henry opposed the operation of a museum by the Smithsonian, he understood the importance of collecting and classifying natural phenomena from the continent's far reaches, which were just opening to exploration, and thought it appropriate to use Smithsonian funds to obtain type specimens for such study.
	www.150.si.edu /chap2/two.htm (3911 words)

	Simpson4
		Wise’s parents died when Wise was a relatively young age, leaving little inheritance for their younger son.
		While a member of the House, Wise vehemently supported the gag rule (a rule quieting petitions sent to the House floor that were abolitionist in nature), yet Simpson’s states that “Wise rose in the House to denounce Northern shipping interests for fastening slavery on the South during the colonial period.
		The author portrays Wise as an exaggerated personification of a type common in Virginia and the Old South and relates that although he was greatly admired by some Virginians, he was energetically yet vilified by others.
	personal.tcu.edu /~SWOODWORTH/Simpson4.html (1293 words)

	Thomas Wise, Mayor of Oxford
		Thomas Wise (1707–1772) was the son of Henry Wise (who was himself three times Mayor of Oxford).
		Henry Wise, Mayor in 1711/12, 1718/19, and 1730/1 (his father)
		[In a tomb not far from here lie the remains of Thomas Wise, Alderman of this city and son of Henry and Maria, who died on 13 August 1772.
	www.headington.org.uk /oxon/mayors/1714_1835/wise_thomas_1746.htm (426 words)

	Henry Alexander WISE
		A biographical sketch of Henry A. Wise, with a history of the political campaign in Virginia in 1855.
		Henry A. Wise, upon the conduct and character of James K. Polk, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, with other ”Democratic” illustrations.
		“Henry A. Wise and the Campaign of 1873: Some Letters from the Papers of James Lawson Kemper.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 62 (July 1954): 320-42.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/wise-henry-alexander.html (337 words)

	Wise, Henry Alexander on Encyclopedia.com
		WISE, HENRY ALEXANDER [Wise, Henry Alexander] 1806-76, American political leader and Confederate general in the Civil War, b.
		An outspoken defender of slavery, Wise defeated (1855) the Know-Nothing candidate for governor of Virginia by accusing that party of abolitionism, thereby breaking the Know-Nothing movement in the South.
		Henry VIII may be our most famous monarch, a man who still bestrides English history as mightily as he dominated his kingdom nearly 500 years ago--but how well do we really understand him?
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/E-W1ise-H1en.asp (424 words)

	Henry Wise ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Albert Henry Payne, Frederick The Wise, 19th - 20th century
		Frederick III (1463-1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony, 1533 Attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder
		Henry Wolf, Portrait of the Engraver Henry Wolf, 1905
	wwar.com /masters/w/wise-henry.html (1515 words)

	Gov. Henry Alexander Wise
		On Oct. 17, 1859, Governor Henry Wise of Virginia received the alarming news that Northerners had attacked the armory at Harpers Ferry.
		Wise arrived in Harpers Ferry on the afternoon of Browns capture, accompanied by an entourage of press and politicians to observe the interrogation.
		Wise may have initially thought that the John Brown affair offered an opportunity for favorable exposure on the national stage.
	www.mykindred.com /cloud/TX/getperson.php?personID=I7562&tree=mykindred01 (1716 words)

	roots_06022004
		Henry Galt Wise was born in Bartow County, Georgia in 1845.
		Henry and Ella were the parents of ten children: Alice, Henry “Gus,” Franklin, William R., Paul, Mattie, Ed Howard, Grover and Della.
		Henry and Dorothy were the parents of John, Henry, Adam and Martha.
	www.gadsdenmessenger.com /html/roots_06022004.htm (414 words)

	April, 2005 Co-Volunteers of the Month - 1-Apr-05: Bulletin On-Line Member News article: contact Art Berman
		Henry has actively participated in getting the Professional Geoscientist legislation passed by keeping the HGS membership informed of why it was needed, and some of the obstacles that stood in its way.
		Henry will always tell you with a broad smile that he’s unique amongst Houston geologists, as he’s “one of the few geologists in Houston who was never, ever in oil and gas!” He started his career working for U.S. Steel exploring and producing uranium in south Texas.
		Henry received his Bachelor’s degree in geology from Boston University in 1975 and his Masters Degree in geology from The University of Texas at El Paso in 1977.
	www.hgs.org /en/articles/printview.asp?323 (504 words)

	Ancestors and Descendents of Lee Allan Wise and Dorothy Mae Smith
		Children were: James Alfred Wise, Timothy George Wise, John Henry Wise, Thomas Raymond Wise.
		Children were: Margaret Mary Wise, Henry Andes Wise, Edward Wise, Augusta Elizabeth Wise, Louise Mary Wise, Edward John Wise, Clara Elizabeth Wise, Petronella Mary "Nellie" Wise, Charles Clement Wise, Genevieve Elizabeth (Jennie) Wise, Joseph Alfred Wise.
		Parents: Henry Andes Wise and Mary Clara Schuman.
	members.cox.net /leewise/d89.htm (1704 words)

	Calgary Board of Education - Schools and Areas
		Henry Wise Wood is regarded as one of the most influential individuals in Canadian agricultural and farming history.
		Henry Wise Wood High School, the Home of Scholars, Artists and Champions, is located in the southwest community of Chinook Park and Kelvin Grove, serving the communities of Bayview, Bel-Aire, Braeside, Britannia, Cedarbrae, Chinook Park, Eagle Ridge, Elboya, Haysboro, Kelvin Grove, Kingsland, Manchester, Mayfair, Meadowlark Park, Oakridge, Palliser, Pumphill, Windsor Park, Woodbine, and Woodlands.
		Henry Wise Wood moved to Alberta in 1905 and became a Canadian citizen in 1909.
	www.cbe.ab.ca /schools/view.asp?id=252 (359 words)

	Calgary Board of Education - What's New
		Henry Wise Wood High School IB students continue to be involved in projects such as this as part of achieving their IB diplomas.
		During his years at Henry Wise Wood High School, Stephen was part of a team of seven students involved with the landmine project.
		Among the students receiving awards that night, will be 2003 Henry Wise Wood graduate, Stephen Morgan, now a freshman at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
	www.cbe.ab.ca /new/AroundOurSchools/2003-2004/092203-1.asp (305 words)

	ELEVENTH GENERATION
		She was married to Henry Wise (son of Abraham Wise and Sarah Barnes) on Mar 8 1833 in Putnam Co., IN.
		Henry Wise was born on Mar 16 1812 in Mason Co., Kentucky.
		Mathilda Monnet and Henry Wise had the following children:
	www.countryconnect.com /keith/monnett/d76.htm (73 words)

	Miller Center — John Tyler Bibliography
		Wise, Henry A. Seven Decades of the Union: The Humanities and Materialism Illustrated by a Memoir of John Tyler, with Reminiscences of Some of his Great Contemporaries.
		Wise, Barton H. The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia, 8196-1876.
		A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise.
	www.millercenter.virginia.edu /scripps/reference/bibliographies/tyler.html (2197 words)

	John Brown's Raid At Harpers Ferry
		During John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, Henry Alexander Wise, a Democrat from Accomac County, was governor of the state, while James Buchanan, a Pennsylvanian and graduate of Dickinson College, was president of the United States.
		The John Brown Papers are a part of the Executive Manuscripts of Governor Henry A. Wise.
		Petitions to Governor Henry A. Wise, John Brown Papers, 1859.
	www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh42-1.html (1003 words)

	Brigadier General Henry Alexander Wise
		Young Wise was cared for by his kinsmen, and educated at Washington college, Pa. After his graduation in 1825, he studied law three years with Henry St. George Tucker, and in 1828 removed to Nashville, Tenn., for the practice of his profession.
		Brigadier-General Henry Alexander Wise was born at Drummondtown, Accomack county, December 3, 1806, a descendant of John Wise, who came to Virginia from England about 1650, and was a man of influence in the colony.
		John Wise, father of General Wise, clerk of Accomack county and twice speaker of the Virginia senate, died in 18l2, and his wife, Sarah Corbin, in 1813.
	members.aol.com /jweaver300/grayson/wise.htm (762 words)

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