Edward Wiese, senior member of the Hereford breeding firm of Wiese & Sons, Manning, Iowa, died March 25, 1951. He was in his 82d year, a native of Iowa and a resident of Crawford and Carroll Counties since he arrived there as a baby with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Detlef F. and Margaret (Schneckloth) Wiese, in an ox-drawn covered wagon in 1870. He was born at Davenport, Iowa, September 21, 1869.

On his father's death when Ed Wiese was 18 years old the young man carried on the 1,000-acre Iowa farm. That continued from about 1887 until 1892 when he took a farm of his own but continued to manage the home place until the settlement of the estate and the property was divided. In 1904 he bought 160 acres in the adjoining Carroll County and moved, taking along a good herd of commercial Herefords, headed by registered bulls. More acreage was added over the years. In 1912 a partnership was arranged with two brothers, Adam and Albert, and the business was operated successfully. That partnership was dissolved about 1918 and the firm of Ed Wiese & Son was formed. The son was Lester Wiese whose sons now have been taken into the firm and the name changed to Wiese & Sons.

The Ed Wiese & Son name and in the last few years that of Wiese & Sons, has become well and favorably known in Hereford breeding circles through the high quality of the cattle produced on the Green Valley Stock Farm a mile and a half southeast of Manning. One of the noteworthy purchases by the Wiese firm and one that contributed greatly to its advancement, was that of Don Axtell 17th by Young Axtell from J.C. Andras & Sons, Manchester, Illinois, in the American Royal sale of 1933. Under the name of Intense Domino that bull and his successors, among them Battle Intense, went on to make history in the Wiese herd.

Mr. Wiese is survived by a son, Lester Wiese, Manning, Iowa, and two daughters, Mrs. W.J. Jones, La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Mrs. A.L. Nelson, Salem, Wisconsin. Surviving also are six grandsons, among them Sam Wiese and Gene Wiese of the firm of Wiese & Sons. Funeral services were held at Manning March 27 and burial was in the Manning Cemetery.

Note: Ed's wife was Lucia 1871-1956