Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Charles WISE

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Charles Wise, grandson of John Wise, miller, from Germany, came to Philadelphia from Montgomery County when a lad, and became a retail merchant. This business developed into the wholesale dry goods firm of Wise, Pusey and Company.
He was zealous in the Anti-slavery movement, and finally refused to deal in the products of slavery, buying raw cotton from a grower who employed free labor, and sending it to the mills himself. For many years he was treasurer of the Underground Railroad. His ardor in the cause of freedom brought him into friendly relations with John G. Whittier, when the poet was living in Philadelphia as editor of the "Pennsylvania Freedman," and with Rev. Wm. H. Furness, D.D., whose church he attended from the time he came to Philadelphia.

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