Wise, Mason

WISE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 1/26/2009 at 16:25:41

Mason Wise

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.61, Council Bluffs)
Mason Wise, livery and sale stable, Council Bluffs, was born in Decatur County, Ind., in 1833. He went to Missouri in 1857, from which State he came to Iowa in 1861. In 1866, he came to Council Bluffs and started a livery and sale stable. He has been in this business ever since, and now handles from 300 to 500 head of horses and mules per year. He built a large addition in 1881, which enables him to accommodate 100 head at one time. His stables are commodious and convenient, which, with a fine yard, makes his premises the finest of the kind in the West.