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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 478-479]

    HENRY WEISE, proprietor of WEISE'S Mill on Silver Creek, has been
    identified with the interests of Cherokee County since 1874. He is
    a native of Prussia, born May 9, 1827, and is a son of GOTTLIEB and
    CHRISTINA (SURGUS) WEISE.  HENRY attended school until his fourteenth
    year, after which he he served an apprenticeship of two years at
    milling.  He then worked for several years as a journeyman in different
    Prussian towns.  A greater part of the year 1845 was spent in Russia.
    Mr. WEISE was drafted into the Prussian Army in 1847, serving in the
    **** artillery.  He participated in the Schleswig-Holstein War, and
    also took an active part in the Rebellion at Dresden, Saxony.  He was
    drafted a second time in 1854 for service in the Crimean War, and had
    marched as far as the city of Schmiederg, when it was announced that
    peace had been proclaimed, and the regiment returned.  He was honor-
    ably discharged March 15, 1855, when he engaged in milling until a
    third draft was to be made.  Weary of warfare, and having no assur-
    ance of escaping the draft, he sailed from Hamburg, July 4, 1855,
    on the vessel North America, and arrived in New York City August 15,
    1855.  Fifteen days later he reached Davenport, Iowa, where he resided
    nineteen years.  Three years of that time he was engaged at the car-
    penter's trade, and ten years he was in the employ of one man in a
    mill.  In 1874 he came to Cherokee County and bought the STILES Mill
    on the Sioux River, section 28, Pilot Township, which he operated
    eight years.  During this time the dam was destroyed three different
    times.  In 1882 Mr. WEISE made some investments in land, purchasing
    200 acres in Silver Township, on which his valuable mill property
    now stands.  The race is 300 feet long, with a fall of eighteen feet.
    The wheel is a twenty-inch American turbine, of eighteen horse-power.
    Mr. WEISE'S experience, both in Europe and America, has been of great
    value, and he is to-day one of the most expert millers in the county.
    He owns 200 acres of land in Pilot Township, which is well improved.
    His residence on his home farm is a fine two-story building, and he
    has a good barn and many other valuable improvements. Mr. WEISE was
    married November 18, 1859, at DeWitt, Clinton County, Iowa, to Mrs.
    MARY GOLDEN, a native of Pennsylvania.  Four children have been born
    to them: EDWARD H., ESTELLA, wife of ALONZO PAYNE; NETTIE, wife of
    JAMES PURCELL, and AMANDA, wife of FRANK SHELDON.  In politics Mr.
    WEISE is independent, and is considered one of the solid men of
    Silver Township.

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