Joachim Wiese, Jr. was born in Benfeld, Holstein, on the 30th day of May 1843, dying in Carroll County, Iowa, on the 26th day of July 1911.

While but a boy Mr. Wiese immigrated with his family to America, settling in Davenport, Iowa, and three years later in Clinton County where in the year 1871 he was united in marriage to Miss Emma Wunder, with whom he lived for 40 years, and who survives to mourn his untimely death. Unto this union was born 7 children, all, of whom are now living, and with 8 grandchildren and two brothers grieve with the bereaved wife and mother in her hour of sorrow. The children are John B. and Bernhard of Denison; August of St. Paul, Minnesota; James H. and Emil of near Manning; Mrs. Catherine Selway of Miles City, Montana, and Mrs. Mae Theobald of Denison, Iowa, all of whom except August, together with two brothers, Henry of Davenport and Claus of Lakefield, Minnesota, and their immediate families were present at the funeral services. It was conducted by the Rev. Adolph Fruechte on the lawn of their pleasant home two miles north of Manning on Friday afternoon, July 28, 1911, after which the body was laid to rest under the auspices of Teutonia Lodge, I.O.O.F. in the cemetery south of our little city. Mr. Wiese and his family came to Carroll County in 1888 and three years later purchased the farm and erected the buildings occupied by him at the time of his death. All of the grove, the buildings and other improvements since made on the land are the result of his own efforts, or were made under his guidance and stand as silent testimonials of his thrift and energy. The large attendance at the service attests the esteem in which he was held by those who knew him for truly it may be said, as of few men, that he had not one enemy in all the world.

Never a man of robust physique and having for many years been troubled with a disorder of the stomach, the insidious approach of that terrible disease, cancer of the stomach, was unheeded until it had secured such a foothold in his system that it could not be eradicated although everything that medical skill both at home and in the hospital at Omaha could do, was done in the vain effort to effect a cure.

During his last weeks the gentle ministrations of loving hands made as easy as possible the transition from this to the world beyond and his bedside was constantly attended by his sons and daughters, one of whom came from her far western home to assist the mother in her care for the sufferer and was on her way to his bedside a second time when the end came, the message announcing her father's death. James Wiese died as he lived, a man of sterling upright character. During his lifetime he wronged no man and now that he is gone none have aught but words of praise for the virtues that made his living a worthy example for his family and for all to emulate who have a desire to leave upon the records of life the imprint of a well defined well-molded character of a good father and a good citizen.