from The History of Montgomery County, 1903
  F. WISDEN - Among the progressive farmers of Fawn Creek township, the name of Frank Wisden is very well known. He is a native of Kansas, being born in Montgomery county, on the 5th of June, 1878. His father, Thomas Wisden, was three years old when he was brought from England by his parents, who resided, for a number of years, in Ohio, where Thomas grew to manhood and married. In 1872, Thomas Wisden moved to Kansas and married, in 1876, Margaret Conklin, a native of Ohio, who came to Kansas in the same year. This union was productive of two children: Frank, our subject, and a daughter, who died in infancy.
  Wisden was brought up in Montgomery County, receiving a common school education, and living with his parents, until his marriage, which event took place on November 2, 1898. His wife was Miss Ella Robertson, a native of Montgomery county, and daughter of James and Sarah (Graham). Robertson. Mr. Robertson died in 1880, at forty years of age. He is survived by his wife, now living in Liberty; James N., living in Illinois; Joel, living in Oklahoma Territory, and Ella, wife of Frank Wisden.
  After his marriage, Mr. Wisden started farming on his own account. He rented a farm, for two years, and, by good management and close attention to business, he was enabled to accumulate enough to purchase one hundred and fifty acres of farm land, northeast of Coffeyville. This he farmed until 1901, when he sold out and bought one hundred and sixty acres on Onion creek, three and one-half miles west and three-fourths mile south of Coffeyville. One hundred acres of this farm is fine bottom land, the rest being good upland pasture, on which is located a nice little cottage and good bank barn, both of these buildings being sheltered from the north winds, by a fine oak grove, adding much to the appearance and value of this farm and forming a fine feed lot for the high grade stock (horses. hogs and cattle). which Mr. Wisden is raising. He keeps the best of horses, the kind which can be hitched to the plow, or make a stylish appearance, when driven to a buggy.
  Mr. and Mrs. Wisden have no children. In polities, Mr. Wisden is a Republican, and in energy, he is a Kansan, and with his Kansas energy and his inherited English sturdiness, he makes a fine model for all young men of Montgomery county.