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Below is a family biography included in History of Warren County, Iowa published by Union Historical Company in 1879.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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FISHER, LEVI, hardware merchant; P. O. Lacona; born Feb. 6t 1823, in Chester county, Pennsylvania; parents moved to Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1825; here he learned the tinner and coppersmith’s trade by serving five years’ apprenticeship; he went to Union county, Indiana, in 1843; he came to this county in April, 1872; he enlisted Aug. 21, 1861, as a private in Co. F, Nineteenth Iowa Infantry, and was promoted to First Lieutenant Aug. 21, 1862, and again promoted, to Captain, on the 7th of June, 1863, and served to the close of the war and was honorably discharged July 6, 1865; he was in the battles of Prairie Grove and Vicksburg; he was taken prisoner at Organza and sent to Tyler, Texas, where he was kept ten months, and then sent to the mouth of Red River for exchange, in July, 1864, when he returned to his command at New Orleans; he was at the taking of Spanish Fort in Mobile Bay, and in many other skirmishes; he was twice married; first to Maria Bowlsby, of New Jersey; they had two children: Mary H. and Emma; Mary H. is dead; wife died Aug. 3, 1853; married again March 21, 1854, to Mary, daughter of David R. Lee, of Louisa county, Iowa; they had five children: Blanche B., Albert L., William H., Anna M. and Mamie; Albert L. and Mamie died in infancy.

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This family biography is one of 548 biographies included in The History of Warren County, Iowa published in 1879.  For the complete description, click here: Warren County, Iowa History and Genealogy

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