For thirty-nine years Aaron Wisener has been a resident of Cedar County, during which time he devoted his attention largely to general farming and his active and well spent life has gained for him a creditable position in the regard of his fellow townsmen. He has now passed the seventy-second milestone on life’s journey, his birth having occurred in Montgomery county, Ohio, about sixteen miles north of Dayton, on the 26th of July, 1838.
His parents were John and Nancy (Rinard) Wisener, both of whom were natives of Ohio. The mother died in that state when the son Aaron was nine years of age and the father afterward married again. In 1865 he came to Cedar county, Iowa, where he spent his remaining days, and for two or three years was a merchant in Tipton. In the family were two sons, the elder being Amos Wisener, who is now a resident of Tipton.
In Montgomery county, Ohio, Aaron Wisener was reared and educated and made his home until 1864, when he came to Cedar county, Iowa, where he has since lived. While his life has been less conspicuous than that of a man who gives his attention to political or military service, it none the less deserves recognition because of his fidelity to the duties that have devolved upon him. He has always followed farming with the exception of five years spent in the lumber business in Tipton. At one time he was the owner of a two hundred acre farm in this county. He resided in Tipton for about twenty years and drove to and from his farm during part of that period.
In 1862 Mr. Wisener was united in marriage to Miss Mary Marker, who was born in Darke county, Ohio, March 27, 1843, and is a daughter of Martin and Margaret (Weaver) Marker, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Ohio. In the latter state her parents spent their last days and the father long devoted his attention to farming there. They had a family of three sons and six daughters. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Wisener have been born eight children: Clara Florence, who is now the wife of James Britcher, of Tipton; Minerva Elizabeth, who is the wife of Clarence Safley, of Tipton; William, who is the editor of the Tipton Conservative; Lawrence, who died at the age of seven years; Perrian, who died at the age of fifteen years; Lulu May, the wife of John Caldwell of Mechanicsville; Rosetta, who is the wife of Russell Casad of Tipton; and Lloyd, who is living in Grangeville, Idaho.
