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JOHN FENTON
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JOHN FENTON,
a prominent pioneer of Allen County, was born in Trumbull County,
Ohio, July 11, 1825; son of Robert and Jane (McCrea) Fenton,
natives of Pennsylvania and Ireland, respectively, the former of
whom, of English descent, a farmer by occupation, enlisted in the
war of 1812, though he did not see active service. John
Fenton and his twin sister (now Mrs. James D.
Bentley) are the youngest in a family of eight children. When
ten years of age our subject accompanied his parents to this
county, and was here reared on the farm, attending the log
schoolhouse near by, and has made farming his life avocation. He
was a dutiful son, attending to the wants of his parents who lived
with him until they died—his father in 1852, aged seventy five
years, and his mother in 1855, aged seventy-one years. He was
married in 1849, to Isabella Outhwaite, who was born
in England in 1830, a daughter of George and
Isabella (Swan) Outhwaite. Mr. Fenton
came to this township forty-eight years ago, before Bluffton was
incorporated, and when the country was almost a wilderness. During
the late civil war he enlisted, in 1863, in the First Ohio Heavy
Artillery, serving till the close of the struggle. Mr. and Mrs.
Fenton have an adopted son, Frederick George Fenton, a
farmer of this county. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Bluffton. He is a Republican in politics.
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WILLIAM Mc.
FENTON, retired farmer P. O. Bluffton, was born in Trumbull
County, Ohio, December 25, 1815, son of Robert and
Jane (McCrea) Fenton; the former a native of
Pennsylvania, of Irish descent, in early years a carpenter, but in
later life a farmer-: the latter born in Ireland. They settled on
a farm in Richland Township, this county, in 1836. Our
subject, the fourth in their family of nine children, was reared
on the farm, receiving his education in the pioneer log
schoolhouse. He has made farming the occupation of his life, and
is the owner of eighty acres of land in Richland Township, this
county, on which he now resides. He was married, in 1860, to
Miss Jane Hatch, born in Marion County, Ohio, in 1837, a
daughter of Gardner and Harriet (Dudley) Hatch, who were
natives of Maine and of English descent, former a farmer in Hardin
County, Ohio. This union was blessed with five children: Emma
Jane (deceased), William James, Lizzie May,
John McCrea and Charles Gardner. Mr.
and Mrs. Fenton are members of the United
Presbyterian Church, in which he has officiated as elder. In
politics he is a Republican. He has served as trustee of Richland
Township. Mr. Fenton worked hard in early life, and by prudent
management of his resources has succeeded in accumulating enough
of this world's goods to keep him comfortable in the declining
years of his life.
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DANIEL
E. FETTER, of Bath township, Allen county, Ohio, was here
born, on the homestead of his father, GEORGE FETTER, Sept. 17,
1860. He was reared and lived upon his place until his
marriage, June 5, 1881, with Miss Ida Mella, daughter of
Reuben and Ann E. (Edgecomb) White, of Perry township,
which union has been blessed with the birth of the following
children: Eva, Clarence, Louis (deceased), Fannie,
Clara and Josie. After his marriage he settled
on his present place of seventy-eight acres, which he received
from a kind father and which he has improved in every detail and
converted into a handsome and fertile farm. He is also
interested with his brothers George and Jacob in the lime
and stone quarry business, and, like them, has proved himself to
be a capable business man, winning the respect of all his
neighbors through his industrious habits and upright walk
through life. In politics he affiliates with the
democratic party, and in religion he and his wife are consistent
members of the Lutheran church. The attention of the
reader is called to the biographies of Mr. Fetter's
younger brothers, which follow.
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GEORGE R.
FETTER, a thriving young farmer and rising citizen of
Bath township, Allen county, Ohio, his birthplace, is a son of
George and Sarah (Dent) Fetter, and was born on the
homestead Nov. 15, 183, and here his life has been spent up to
the present time.
GEORGE R. FETTER, Sr., paternal
grandfather of the subject of this biography, came from Baden,
Germany, in 1835, bringing his family, consisting of himself,
wife (who had borne the name of Cupp), and four children,
named George, Catherine, Jacob, and Daniel, of
whom George and Jacob are now deceased. The
family, on landing in the United States, at once came to Ohio,
where the father entered eighty acres of wild land in Bath
township, Allen county, which, he cleared up and transformed
into a productive farm, and on which he passed the remainder of
his days, a respected citizen, a democrat in politics, and in
religion a Lutheran.
GEORGE FETTER, Jr., eldest son of
George Sr., and father of our subject, was born in
Germany in 1826, came to America with his father, and was reared
to manhood on the Bath Township homestead, receiving his
education in the frontier log school-house. After
assisting in clearing and cultivating the home place until
twenty-six years of age, he married and settled down in section
No. 22, same township, where he improved a farm. He then
settled in section No. 27, where J. K., his son, now
resides, and later added to his landed possessions until he
became one of the largest land-owns in Bath township, his broad
acres being now divided up into farms and occupied by his
children. His wife bore the maiden name of Sarah Ward
and was a daughter of William Ward, of German township,
Allen county. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Fetter
were born nine children, in the following order: John
W.; Elizabeth, wife of Edward Gray; Elizabeth E.,
wife of James C. Hull; Daniel P.; George R.; Jacob E.; Sarah
I., wife of Owen Griffith; Junius K., and
Alberta, wife of Joshua Bibel. The mother of
this family died in 1885 and the father in January, 1895, both
members of the Lutheran church, and the remains of both lie
interred in Zion churchyard, Bath township. Mr. Fetter
was in politics a democrat, and was a man who took considerable
interest in the affairs of his township and county. He
served for many years as a school director, was for along time
township trustee, and was universally looked up to by his fellow
townsmen as a man of great sagacity and as one to be relied on
in all emergencies.
George R. Fetter, the subject proper of this
sketch, remained on the home farm assisting his father, until
the latter's death, when he came into possession of his present
farm, in section No. 27, on the Lafayette road, four miles east
of Lima. His marriage took place, in 1885, with Miss
Nancy A. Hefner, daughter of Amos Hefner, of Bath
township, the union resulting in the birth of five children -
George A., Hattie B., Orrie A., Retta B., and
Aaron W. Mr. Fetter had acquired a good knowledge of
business as well as of farming, and is now quite extensively
engaged in developing the stone quarries on his land, operating
lime-kilns, etc. In politics he is a democrat, and for
four or five years has been honored with the position of
township trustee, an office he has filled with credit to himself
and to the satisfaction of the public. As a business man
the name of Mr. Fetter stands without a blemish, and his
social standing is a very desirable one.
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JACOB
E. FETTER, engineer, quarryman and general business man,
was born on the old homestead in Bath township, Allen county,
Ohio, on the old Findlay road, Nov. 8, 1866, a son of George
and Sarah (Ward) Fetter. He received a good common-school
education, and at the age of nine years started to run an engine
in his father's stone quarry and lime works, one-quarter of a
mile south of the residence, where he was employed for six
years, and then moved east, up the creek, to the present place,
where he was employed in running a steam drill. Jacob
E. Fetter remained with his parents until his marriage, Apr.
14, 1879, to Miss Martha Swain, daughter of Jacob
Swain, of Branch county, Mich., and settled on a farm then
owned by his father, consisting of sixty-nine acres, in section
No.23, Bath township, Allen county, Ohio, five miles east Lima,
on the Lafayette road, which farm has since, in July, 1894, been
deeded to him by his respected parent. His marriage has
been blessed with four children, of whom the youngest died in
infancy, those living to adult age being named Jacob L.,
Catherine and Henrietta. Jacob Swain, father of
Mrs. Martha Fetter, was born in Pennsylvania and married
Miss Henrietta Frey, of Michigan, to which union were born
three children, as follows: David L.; Albert and
Martha (Mrs. Fetter), who all lived to maturity, to make
glad the hearts of their parents.
Mr. Fetter, our subject, has made all the
improvements on his sixty-nine-acre farm and has associated with
himself his two brothers, George and Daniel, in
the stone-quarrying and lime-kiln business, of which business,
our subject once had full possession but later formed a
partnership with the tow brothers named, and together they
carried on the business until March, 1892, when another brother,
Julius, was admitted to the firm, who remained one year
only and then sold back to the three brothers, who originally
constituted the firm, who had paid $5,150 to George Fetter
for the thirty-four and one-third acres which constituted his
share of the quarry. Daniel, George and Jacob
Fetter also own eighty acres in section No. 25, Bath
township, derived from their father, George. In
1890 our subject was also employed, in the spring of the year,
in blowing stumps for the Van Wert county reservoir at a salary
of $20 per day, and also ran a steam drill for Jacob Stehlie,
in the year 1882, and Jacob Custer, for $10 per day,
in same year. In 1893 he began to traffic in stone,
selling large quantities to Edward Dais of Lima, Ohio,
and also engaged in shipping large quantities of lime to Niles,
Mich., and to J. H. Whiteman, of Wapakoneta, Ohio.
In politics, Mr. Fetter is a democrat, and
in religion Mrs. Fetter is a devout Lutheran. It
will be seen that Mr. Fetter is one of the most
substantial, shrewdest and most enterprising business men of
Allen county, and the high standing he has attained among his
fellow-citizens is due, in a great measure, to this inherent
energy, which indeed makes him a man among men, which he is
universally recognized to be. A perusal of the biographies
of other members of this family, to be found in other pages of
this volume, will be found of much interest.
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JULIUS
K. FETTER is a native of Bath township, Allen county,
Ohio, was born on the home farm in 1870, and is a son of
George and Sarah Fetter, old-timers of the township and
county. Until the age of twenty-four years he resided with
his parents and then married Miss Susan Coon, a native of
Amanda township, Allen county, and a daughter of William Coon,
a well-known farmer. Mr. Fetter, after his
marriage, settled on the farm owned by his father in Bath
township and four years later removed to his present farm of 109
acres in the same township, which farm was the gift of his
generous father; one child, Oris, blessed his marriage
with Miss Coon. In politics, Mr. Fetter
belongs to the young democracy of the county and takes an active
part in advancing the interests of his organization, but has
never sought office from his party as a reward for his services,
preferring to devote his attention to the interests of his
private affairs.
William Coon, father of Mrs. Susan Fetter,
was born in Amanda township, Allen county, Ohio, in 1843, and
there married his first wife, who bore the maiden name of
Jane Place. To this union were born ten children,
including Mrs. Fetter. Mr. Jane Coon
died in 1885, and the second marriage of Mr. Coon was to
Lucinda Sheline of Indiana. Mr. Coon is a
prosperous farmer, owning a farm of 182 acres in Amanda
township, and is a highly respected gentleman. He is a
prominent member of the Christian church, and an influential and
useful member of the farmers' alliance (Patrons of Husbandry) of
Amanda township. Julius K. Fetter, although yet a
young man, has made his mark in this community as a practical
and accomplished agriculturist, and the active interest he takes
in the public affairs of his township gives indication of the
usefulness he will attain as a citizen in the days yet to come.
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JAMES
FITZPATRICK, Spencerville, was born in Wayne county, Ohio,
July 2, 1848, son of Patrick and Margaret (Doudel) Fitzpatrick,
former of whom when twenty years of age came to America, and
located in New York, from there moving to Summit County. Ohio, and
eventually to Wayne County. The latter came to America when
sixteen years of age. They were married in New York State, and to
them were born eleven children, of whom James is next to the
youngest. The early days of our subject were spent on a farm and
in attending school. He entered upon his career in life as a
farmer, and in 1879 came to this county, where he has since
engaged in the grocery and queensware business. His trade is
extensive, and he is recognized as one of the best grocery men of
Spencerville. Mr. Fitzpatrick was united in
marriage, in 1875, with Miss Maggie Lannon, a
native of Hamilton County, Ohio, born September 9, 1857. To this
union were born two children: Alice I. and Eddie.
Mr. Fitzpatrick has served the people as a member of
the council, and is the present township clerk. Politically he is
identified with the Democratic party.
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JACOB FRY,
farmer, P. O. Conant, was born in Pennsylvania Feb. 26, 1827, a
son of Abraham and Mary (Beckenbaugh) Fry, of
Pennsylvania, of whose family of nine children only four are
living, Jacob being the youngest. Our subject was
married, Oct. 5, 1848, to Amy J. Chipman, who died in
March, 1871, the mother of seven children: Abraham L., Mary
E. deceased), Isabel (wife of L. Bowersock),
Rosetta (wife of William King), Ida A.
(deceased), Mattie (deceased), and William S.
Mr. Fry came to Allen County in 1849, and two years later
located on his farm in Amanda Township, and has been one of the
sturdy pioneers who have cleared away the forests and prepared
the soil for cultivation. He has served the people as
trustee for three years. During the war he enlisted in
Company D, One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
remaining in the service till the close of the struggle.
Religiously he is connected with the Baptist Church.
Mr. Fry's oldest son, Abram L., was born Jan . 14,
1850, received a common school education, and has always been a
farmer. He is still living on the homestead. He has
been township clerk two years, and is now serving as such by
appointment on an unfinished term. He was married, Dec.
29, 1870, to Josephine Fryer, born in Allen County July
24, 1854, by whom he has had four children: Ida Bell
(deceased), Alpheus, Inetta and Effie May.
Politically both our subject and son of Democrats.
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