Wiese, Peter

WIESE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/11/2008 at 16:11:06

Peter Wiese

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.251, Valley Twp.)
Peter Wiese, farmer, P. O. Hancock, was born in Holstein, Germany, in 1848, and received his education there. He came to this country in 1868, locating first in Davenport, Iowa, where he engaged in farming three years; thence he went to West Liberty, Muscatine Co., Iowa, and was engaged in farming till 1872, when he came to this county and purchased eighty acres in Knox Township. In 1878, he sold his farm in Knox Township, and, coming to Valley Township, bought eighty acres in Section 13. Here he has since conducted farming. Mr. Wiese was married, in Davenport, to Mrs. Sophia L. Hansan, daughter of Henry W. T. Bein, a farmer of Scott County, owning 200 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Wiese have four children - Augusta T., Jacob H., Eggert and Ida L. - two of them being Mrs. Wiese's children by her first husband, Hans J. Hansan. The parents of Mr. Wiese are living near West Liberty. He has one sister living in Avoca, and one brother in Knox Township. Mr. Wiese was naturalized May 19, 1882, and votes the Democratic ticket.