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Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana, With a Compendium of History, 1834-1904: A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation It appears also that the Governor gave to his name at that time the English form which most of the family have since retained. Adam W'ise was, when he died, October 5, 1833, in the eighty - second year of his age, and had eleven children, sixty-three grandchildren, and one hundred and thirty-three great - grandchildren, and it is claimed that his descendants are now in nearly every state of the Union. The Wise family is not one to become extinct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.