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Frederick Augustus Wise
(dates)
Son of Henry Wise and Barbara Rohrer
Nephew of Col. Frederick Augustus Rohrer
Excerpted from "Westmoreland Press" (The History of Westmoreland County,
Volume 1, Chapter 25; Bourcher & Jordan, 1906)
"In 1811 the Federalists started a paper in Greensburg called the
Greensburg Gazette. This was done so that their political organization might have a mouth-piece. The Federalist paper
seeming to succeed, in 1818 the Democrats got together and purchased the old Register. Frederick
A. Wise was made managing editor, and the paper came out in 1819 as the Westmoreland
Republican and Farmers Chronicle, for they were evidently not afraid of long names. Wise
had been born and brought up in Greensburg, but for some years he had been a printer in Baltimore. On coming
here he made a contract with the owners that when he should pay a certain price, most likely the original cost of the establishment,
he was to become sole owner of the organ. He thus gained the ownership of it and continued to edit it till 1830,
when he sold it to Joseph Russell."
“Until the end of 1822
Simpson was able to report only isolated signs around the state of a preference Jackson. But in December a series of separate actions began
that rapidly coalesced into a campaign organization. The warm endorsement of the hero in Philadelphia
by the "ably conducted" Columbian Observer inspired a call to action in distant
Westmoreland County. Jackson's first public nomination in Pennsylvania came on December 28 at the Greensburg Courthouse. The active men of Westmoreland included David Marchand, who had served two terms in Congress, and Jacob M. Wise, a prominent member of the standing committee. Frederick
A. Wise was the editor of the pro-Jackson, antibanking Westmoreland Republican,
and Assemblymen John A. Wise and
James Clarke, ardent opponents of banking incorporations, were other well-known names among the local Jacksonians.”
Footnote: Westmoreland Republican, December 13, 27, 1822; January 3, February 21, November 21, 1823; Pittsburgh Allegheny Democrat, June 26, 2827. Klein, Pennsylvania Politics, pp. 120-125,
is a brief but helpful account of the campaign to March 1823.
Source: "The Pennsylvania Origins of the Jackson Movement”, Kim T. Phillips; Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 91, No. 3. (Autumn, 1976), pp. 489-508.
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