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WILSON
Andrew Wilson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and emigrated to Canada where he married Margaret Gordon. In 1880 they came to Pickford and homesteaded a farm one mile west of town. They had seven children: THOMAS, CHARLES, GORDON, DANIEL, MARGARET, CLARA(Mrs. Fred Green), and AGNES (Mrs. Robert Harrison). All are deceased.
The Wilsons had the Post Office during President Cleveland's administration. Clara Wilson Green and F. H. Taylor wrote Washington, D. C., and secured the first daily mail service ftom Sault Ste. Marie. Andrew Wilson died in 1907.
THOMAS martied Ellen O'Neil and had five children: Ellen. Charles married Merle McKenzie Harrison.Charles, Esther, Maridn, Ethel, and married George Fountain of DeTour. Marion married Glen Crawford and had four children: Gary (deceased), Larry (deceased), Linda(deceased) and Joyce. Steve, and Kerri*. (Gary married Karlene Materna adn their children are Randy, Steve, and Derri. Ethel (Mrs. Orville Izzard) lives in Texas. Her children are Arla Jean, Carol, Fleda, and George. Ellen married William Shobbrock and they have one daughter, Geraldine (Mrs. Dvid Hewer.)
WISE
William F. Wise, first settler of Blairville and of Marquette Township, was born Oct. 15,. 1845, in Kent County, England. He was the eldest son of William and Mary Hartrup Wise. He was brought to Clinton, Ontario, by his parents in 1849 via sailing vessel to New York, thence by by ox team into southern Ontario. In 1877 he married Annie Blair and in 1880 came by sailing vessel to Stirlingville, walked to Pickford. He was advised that there was good farming land southwest to be homesteaded. He built Blairville’s first home where Don Nettleton now lives. A year or so later, his father-in-law moved his family to this new land. At that time the Blairs took the place where William Wise had built the cabin and he moved one mile further west where Harold McCord now lives. 7 children were born to this family.
Frederick married Sadie Harrison and had three children: Izetta (Mrs. Conrad Galer), Marie (Mrs. Harold Lockhart) and Harrison. Izetta's children are Willis, Merlin, and Connie. Marie had two children, Ronald and Donna. Harrison's daughter is Sandra. Nellie married Alex Crawford and had one daughter, Aleyn (Mrs. Louis Cowan). Lawrence married Emily Beadle and had five children: Thelma (Mrs. James Yeack), Dorothy (Mrs. Oren Barber), Morrell, Pearl (Mrs. John Burtt - deceased), and Lois is married. Carrie married C. Alex Harrison nd had seven children: Reta (Mrs. Russell Cottle), Kenneth, Edwin, Isabelle (Mrs. John Rye), Stanley, Elizabeth (Mrs. Warren Hill), and Roy. Ivy married James Crawford and had four children: Jay, June (Mrs. Russell Bye), Annetta (Mrs. John Allen), and Reid. Minnie married Vernon Wood and after his death she married Harold Alwood. She raised a foster daughter, Marion Wise. Charles married Josephine Wilson and they had five children: Charles W., Emery, Joann (Mrs. Tony Garish), Donald, and Marion.
First township records to be found show that Marquette Township was organized before 1892 and William Wise was the first supervisor. He built the first schoolhouse in this settlement. Com-munity affairs were held here, including church, school, Sunday school, and town meetings. Marquette Township paid first school tax in 1892 and was charging Pickford Township tuition for Herb Pryce, William and Nelson Wonnacott, and Joseph Rye in 1901.
Pickford's first fair was held on the Garbe farm, where Leonard Rutledge's family now live and William Wise was instrumental in its organization. Mr. Wise died April 2, 1922, in the Sault.
Frederick W. Wise was William's youngest brother, born in Goderich Township Sept. 26, 1964. He came to Blairville to visit his brother in 1882 when he was 18. The pioneer spirit was in his blood, he liked what he found, and after a trip home, came back in 1886 to buy the 160 acres directly north of William's. He bought this clay farm, still in brush, from the Marquette Railroad Company. At this time in Michigan's history, the state would deed vast acres of land to railroad so they could sell the land and use the money to build their roads. He made this land tillable with ox, match, and dynamite.
Frederick W. Wise married Margaret J. Clegg March 29, 1893, and to this union were born 13 children. The oldest son, William H. saw rugged service in World War I, and the youngest, Keith, in World War II. Frederick Wise's vocation of farming produced the best in livestock breeding. His cattle were Shorthorns, his sheep Lincoln. His sires were imported from Canada. He owned fine hotses, drove a 1914 Ford, one of Pickford's first cars. He was a school board member in Marquette Township for 25 years, and Pickford Fair Board Director nearly that long. He promoted the telephone for Blairville by helping to build the lines.
WILLIAM H. died Jan. 30, 1926; MILLARD, Oct. 18, 1959; ALMER, May 3, 1940; HARRY, September, 1897; MARY ELIZABETH, Oct. 29, 1919. FRANCES HUNT is a retired elementary teacher in Portland, Michigan. JESSIE INGRAHAM lives in Portland, Michigan. CARRIE WISE is a secretary in the Department of Natural Resources in Lansing. F. JAY WISE is Personnel Manager and Secretary of Abrams Aerial Survey in Lansing. KEITH WISE is an engineer in Jackson. GLADYS WISE RUTLEDGE and JOHN H. WISE live in Pickford.
JOHN H farmed the original homestead from his father's death Nov. 30, 1923, until November 1955. His sons, William and Dean, each have a home there and are farming with a Holstein herd.
Their families make this farm a fourth generation home. William married Geraldine Batho and they have three children: Mike, a student at the U. of Michigan, Beth-Anne, and Kelly. Dean married Marjeen Sawyers. Their children are Kaye, a student at Northern Michigan University, Alan and Lori.
GLADYS WISE RUTLEDGE lived on a pioneer homestead too, settled in 1882, one-half mile south of the original school site on the William Rutledge farm. They sold theit farm to Robert Fick in 1971 and moved into their new mobile home in Pickford. Their daughter, Gloria (Mrs. Harry Smith) has three children, Cathy and Cindy, students at L.S.S.C. and Chris.
Mrs. Margaret J. Wise, wife of Frederick Wise, died Aug. 4, 1955, on the farm to which she came as a bride in 1893.
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