"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Chicago:
Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 892.
 
BARTHOLOMEW WIESNER

	On the Parkersville and Aumsville road, ten miles northeast of Salem and
five miles west of Silverton, Marion county, Ore., is located the farm of
Bartholomew Wiesner, presenting a fair picture of rural comfort.  The house,
barns and outbuildings are all substantial and up-to-date, and the farm itself
is well stocked with Angora goats, horses, Jersey cattle, Brown Leghorn and
Barred Plymouth Rock chickens, the fowls having taken first prize at the Oregon
State Fair, where they are exhibited each year.
	The birth of Mr. Wiesner occurred near Zunderbach, Germany, March 7, 1835.
His father, Adam Wiesner, born in 1799, was a manufacturer of tile and brick and
also engaged in farming up to the time of his death, which occurred at the age
of sixty years, in the year 1860, the mother, Margaret Happ, born in 1809,
having died when about fifty years old.  Bartholomew Wiesner was one of eight
children, and the large family prevented him receiving as many advantages as
would otherwise have been accorded him.  His school days were ended at the age
of twelve years, at which time he started for America.  Having his own
livelihood to earn, he sought with remarkable judgment the best field wherein to
spend his energy.  It was in the year 1847 that he came to the United States and
settled in Buffalo, N. Y., where he served as an apprentice to his uncle, who
was a tailor.  After a period of three years spent in that city, Mr. Wiesner
removed to Canada West, locating in what is now Ontario, where he secured
employment on a farm, and remained until 1862.  In the last-named year he came
to Oregon, via New York, Isthmus of Panama and San Francisco, and after a stop
in British Columbia of a few months, he came to Marion county and settled on a
farm on French Prairie, where his management and industry resulted in sufficient
means to enable him to purchase land in 1864.  This first purchase was located
on the Prairie, and there he bought the farm which he now owns, consisting of
one hundred and seventy-two acres, though since his purchase he has added twenty
more.  One hundred and twenty acres of his land is under cultivation.  Mr.
Wiesner has put all the improvements on this place and has brought it to the
present high state of cultivation.
	April 6, 1868, Mr. Wiesner was united in marriage with Miss Louise Jane
Cawood, who was born in Daviess county, Ind., and with her parents crossed the
plains with mule teams in 1865.  They took up their residence on the farm on
French Prairie, and in 1870 removed to their present location.  Eight children
were born of the union, of whom Emma is the wife of Edward Baughton, a
contractor of Portland, and they have two children, Ralph and Mamie; Philip is
in Mesa, Ariz., engaged in bee culture; Ephraim G. and Ernest C. are at home;
Opha is the wife of Warren Gray, of Marquam; Bertha and Archie B. also make
their home with their parents, and Oso died in infancy.  One of the most
important events in the life of Mr. Wiesner was obtaining his marriage license
and teacher's certificate on the same day.  He taught school one term, organized
a new district, there having previously been no building, the pupils meeting in
a room of his own house.  Politically Mr. Wiesner is a Socialist and is a member
of the Christian Scientists.  He has served in public offices at different
times, being elected justice of the peace, serving four years, and school
director from 1870 to 1890.  Mr. Wiesner is influential in the Grange, and is
now overseer in the Pamona Grange and master of North Howell Grange, No. 274,
having passed all the chairs of the subordinate Grange.
 

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in August 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.