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History of Shelby County, Ohio
Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So.
1883

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  Dinsmore Twp. -
JOHN FALER, Retired Farmer.  Mr. Faler was born in Lebanon County, Pa., Jan. 14, 1807.  When he had attained the age of sixteen years, or in 1823, he came with his parents, George and Eva Faler, to Ohio, and located in Perry County.  In 1830 he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and Susannah Berket, of Perry County, where she was born in July, 1812.  In June, 1836, Mr. and Mrs. Faler came to Shelby County, purchased, made improvements, and settled on the east half of the N. W. quarter of section 27, Dinsmore Township, on which he has since resided.  His companion died Mar. 10, 1879.  He reared a family of seven children: Christopher, George, John, Susannah, Mary, Elizabeth, and CatharineJohn Faler died Nov. 27, 1874.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 245
  Van Buren Twp. -
MICHAEL FAUL was born in Ireland in 1820, and settled in this county in 18657.  He was married in New Hampshire in 1846.  When he came here he located in a forty-acre lot in section 26, but afterwards purchased another farm of forty acres.  His only son, John, now occupies the old homestead, and Mr. F. makes his home with him.  His son's family consists of wife and two children, named Mary C. and John, one child, Joseph M., being dead.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 254
  Washington Twp. -
FRANCIS FERGUS was born in Shelby on the farm on which he now lives in the year 1824.  He, together with his brothers, cleared the home farm, their father having died when they were young.  When twenty years of age Francis went to learn the carpenter trade with his brother Joseph, since which time he has worked at his trade the most of his life.  In 1855 he married Emily Monroe.  They have by this marriage five children, as follows:  Laura J., Sarah A., Ella, Samuel S., and John W.  Mrs. Fergus was born in Virginia in 1834.  Her parents were Henson and Eliza (Campbell) Monroe, who settled in Shelby County in 1834.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 288
  Orange Twp. -
JOSEPH FERGUS.   As early as the middle of the eighteenth century Fergus, with his son Francis, came from Ireland to America, and located in Virginia.  Francis remained in Virginia, and married there.  When he married, or to whom he was married, or the number of his family, to us is not known; but we find that he had one son, John Fergus, born in 1794.  He remained in Virginia until he grew to manhood, when he was married to Nancy Guthrie, with whom he lived less than a year, when she died.  The time of his marriage and death of his wife is not known.  In 1819 he came
to Miami County, Ohio, where, in 1820, he married Margaret Stafford.  Through misfortune Mr. F. lost all his property, and in 1823 he removed to Shelby County, and bought land in Washington Township.  Here he stuck some stakes in the ground, put up some poles, and covered it with his wagon cover.  This was in July.  In August, Joseph Fergus, the subject of this sketch, was born in this cloth tent.  He lived at home until the death of his father in 1837, not having the advantage of a single day’s schooling.  In 1839 he went to learn the carpenter trade, at which he served an apprenticeship of three years.  During this apprenticeship he received five months’ schooling, all he ever got in his life.  In 1847 he married Barbary Ullery. By this marriage they raised a family of eleven children, viz., Caroline E., Richard H., Sarah C., John S., Wm. A., Mary M., Joseph L., Winfield S., Charles E., Wealthy E., and Laura A.   Mr. F. worked at his trade until 1855, when he bought a farm and sawmill in Orange Township, where he now lives.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 195
  Orange Twp. -
THOMAS H. FERGUS, a son of Samuel M. and Eliza A. (Hull) Fergus, was born in Shelby County in 1854.  Married Mary A. Valentine, a daughter of Richard W. Valentine, in 1876.  They have three children, Frank P., Lottie E., and Leonard C.   They reside on section 23, near Kirkwood, on part of the Valentine farm.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 188
  Dinsmore Twp. -
EWALT FEY, Retired Farmer, was born in Germany Apr. 27, 1813.  He is a son of Henry and Margaret Fey.  He is a stonemason by trade, which, in connection with farming, has been a business through life.  In 1838 he married Miss Anna C. Aberhardt, of Germany, born Sept. 25, 1803.  Mr. and Mrs. Fey remained in their native country until in 1847, when they, with two children emigrated to America and located in Buffalo, N. Y., remaining until 1848, when they came to Shelby County, Ohio, and settled in Dinsmore Township.  Since his settlement in this township he has given the greater part of his time to farming, which he has conducted with success, and now owns a good farm of 140 acres, in section 21, on which he has resided since Mar. 29, 1866.  His companion died Dec. 13, 1876.  He reared a family of two children, viz., Henry and Christian.  He served two years in the German army.
     Henry Fey was born in Germany, Oct. 11, 1839.  He came to America with his parents in 1847.  On the 1st of June, 1865, he married Miss Adaline Bohlender, then of Dayton, Ohio, but a native of Germany, where she was born Nov. 25, 1840.  Mr. and Mrs. Fey settled on the home farm with his father, where they have since resided.  They have three children, Anna M., Elizabeth, and Sophia.
Source 2: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 246
  Clinton Twp. -
WILLIAM FIELDING, M. D., was the son of Daniel Fielding and Elizabeth Henderson Fielding, and was born in Canonsburg, Washington County, Pa., on May 1, 1796.  Mrs. Fielding was the daughter of Daniel Henderson.  Daniel Fielding removed with his family to Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky.  There his son William received his scientific education, which qualified him to commence the study of medicine under Dr. Burnet at Falmouth, twenty miles from Cynthiana.  After a full medical course he commenced the practice of medicine in 1816 in Madison County, Ohio.  He was in the war of 1812, and served six months under Col. Johnston.
     In 1818 Dr. Fielding married Miss Elizabeth Vail, and they have born to them five sons and seven daughters, eleven of whom reached maturity.  In the same year he settled in Franklin, and remained there, engaged in his profession, until 1824, when great inducements were proffered him, and he settled in Sidney Shelby County, Ohio.
     In 1825, the date of the organization of the Presbyterian Church, he was elected one of the ruling elders, the church being under the pastorate of the Rev. Joseph Stephenson.
     Dr. Fielding
was one of the original petitioners of Temperance Lodge No. 73, in 1825, whose history is given at length in this work.  Had the honor of naming the Temperance Lodge, because he did not only practised but taught the cardinal virtue, and was honored with being its first Worshipful Master, which position he held during his life at different times for twenty-seven years.  The brethren of the lodge to this day annually on his birthday assemble in the lodge room, and pay their fraternal visit to his beloved and aged widow, now in the eighty-second year of her age.
     Dr. Fielding had the honor of representing this county in the Legislature for seven years.
     In order to educate his children he removed to Clinton County, and after those duties had been performed he returned to Sidney, and again resumed a laborious practice.  But age was telling upon his constitution, and he and his friends deemed it prudent for him to settle on his farm one mile from the courthouse, which he named Evergreen.  But even this removal did not free him entirely from the labors of the medical profession, and to his death he administered relief to a few families, especially those of his early associates when he first settled in Sidney.
     We may truthfully state that to his death, which occurred on the 17th day of Feb. 1873, he enjoyed the confidence of the whole community.  His moral deportment and his high intellectual attainments, combined with his Christian character, not only made him a welcome visitor at every fireside, but a dear and cherished friend among his fellow-citizens.  Truthfully may we say with the poet -

Mature for Heaven - the fatal mandate came,
With it a chariot of ethereal flame;
In which, Elijah like, he passed the spheres,
Bright joy to Heaven, but left the world in tears.

Source 2: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 371

  Dinsmore Twp. -
SAMUEL FLESHER was born in Hanover County, Virginia, Dec. 21, 1834, where he passed his minority days.  He is a son of John and Mary Flesher.  He is a millwright and house-carpenter by trade, which, in connection with farming, has been his avocation.  In 1870 he retired from his trade, and has since given his attention to farming, which he has conducted with success, and now owns a good farm in Dinsmore Township.  On the 24th of September, 1864, he enlisted in Company H, 29th O. V. V. I., 2d division, 20th Army Corps.  He was with Sherman on his march to the sea.  He was discharged at Washington D. C., June 5, 1865, and returned to his home.  In 1847 he came to Shelby County, and made his home with Daniel Flesher in Dinsmore Township.  Jan. 20, 1850 he married Miss Delila Slagle, then of Champaign County, but a native of Virginia, where she was born Mar. 18, 1827.  Mr. and Mrs. Flesher settled on the east half of the southwest quarter of section 57, Dinsmore Township, remained three years, when they moved to Champaign County, Ohio; remained three years, moved to Logan County, but 1857 again found them located in Dinsmore Township, this county, where they lived until 1858, when they moved back to Logan County, remained two years, when they returned to this county, and settled in Dinsmore Township, where he has since resided.  His companion departed this life June 18, 1881.  He reared one child, viz., Elizabeth, now Mrs. Wilson Dill, who resides in Dinsmore Township, with whom Mr. Flesher is now making his home.
Source 2: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 245
  Dinsmore Twp. -
WILLIAM B. FLESHER, deceased, was born in Greene County, Ohio, July 10, 1843.  He was a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Flesher who came to Shelby County in 1847, and settled on the east half of the southwest quarter of section 27, where they passed the remainder of their days.  Mrs. Flesher died Sept. 28, 1856.  Mr. Flesher died Sept. 15, 1856.
     William B. Flesher, subject of this sketch, came with his parents to Dinsmore Township, this county, in 1847.  On the 31st of July, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, 99th O. V. I., served his country faithfully until after the close of the war, and was honorably discharged from the service May 18, 1865.  On the 1st of January, 1866, he married Miss Caroline, daughter of Lewis and Sarah Kah Mr. and Mrs. William B. Flesher, settled in his father's home farm, remained about two years, when he purchased and moved on the farm in section 21, Dinsmore Township, on which he died Apr. 1, 1877, leaving his companion with three small children, viz., Ida M., Lula S., and Clara, and many friends to mourn the loss of a kind husband, an indulgent father, and a good citizen.
Source 2: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 245
  Loramie Twp. -
WILLIAM FLINN was born in Loramie Township, this county, July 18, 1836.  He is a son of William N. and Mary Flinn, who were among the early settlers of Loramie Township.  He was reared on a farm, and he made farming his principal business until 1877, when he engaged in the manufacturing of tile at North  Houston, which business he has since been conducting.  On the 3d of December, 1856, he married Miss Charlotte Harmoney, daughter of Christian and Elizabeth Harmoney.  Miss Harmoney was born in Franklin County, Pa., July 5, 1836, and came to Shelby County with her parents in 1848.  By this union he has four children, viz, Hudson, Mary E., Edward C., and Effie M.  On the 1st of August, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, 50th O. V. I., served three years, and was honorably discharged from the service August 1st, 1865.  He was in the Army of the Tennessee under Gen. Sherman.
Source 2: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 315
NOTE:  See Flinn Bible Records
  Dinsmore Twp. -
CHRISTIAN E. FOGT, deceased, was born in Baden Germany, Dec. 14, 1809.  He emigrated to America in 1833, adn located in Shelby County, O.  On the 23d of Dec. 1839, he married Miss Mary Boyer, then of Shelby County, but a native of Berks County, Pa., where she was born Dec. 14, 1821.  Mr. and Mrs. Fogt settled on the farm in section 34, Franklin Township, now owned and occupied by their son, C. Fogt, Jr., on which they lived until the spring of 1881, when they moved to Anna, where he died Mar. 18, 1882.  They reared a family of seven children, viz., Christina A., John B., Lucinda, George W., Mary A., Christian E. and Samuel F. all of whom are now living except Mary A., who died in February, 1879.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 245
  Franklin Twp. -
GEORGE FOGT, deceased, was a native of Germany, where he was born in 1805.  He married Miss Julia A. Hofbearer, born in Germany Feb. 10, 1810.  In 1844 they emigrated to America in company with Michael Shiff and family, and located in Shelby County on 160 acres of land, on which he lived many years, and followed farming as his vocation.  They reared a family of eight children, Sarah, Jacob, Rachel, Catharine, Julia, George, John, and Frederick.  In June, 1868, Mr. and Mrs. Fogt left their farm and moved to Sidney, where he died May 24, 1873.  Mrs. Fogt then moved to Anna in the fall of 1873, where she died Jan. 20, 1878.
Source 2: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 328
  Franklin Twp. -
JOHN FOGT, son of George and Julia Fogt, was born in Franklin Township, on the farm where he now resides Oct. 14, 1846.  Jan. 9, 1869, he married Miss Lydia A.., daughter of John M. and Leanda Shiff, born in Franklin Township, Shelby County, Ohio, Oct. 13, 1848.  Mr. and Mrs. Fogt settled on part of his father's home farm, where they now reside  They have three children, one son and two daughters.  In 1878 he began the erection of his fine brick residence, which he completed in 1879.
Source 2: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 328
  Dinsmore Twp. -
JOHN B. FOGT, son of Christian E. and Mary Fogt, was born in Franklin Township, this county, Apr. 30, 1842.  He received a common school education.  He has made farming his principal vocation, and now owns a good farm of one hundred acres in Dinsmore Township.  In 1879 he invented the Hay Rake, known as the Automatic Sulky Rake (or self-dumping rake).  He received the patent on his invention Feb. 24, 1880; since that time a number of the rakes have been manufactured by The Sidney Agricultural Works and sold to farmers in different parts of Shelby and adjoining counties, which is giving entire satisfaction to the parties using them.  Jan. 5, 1865, he married Miss Harriet, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Ragan, born May 6, 1849.  Mr. and Mrs. Fogt settled on a farm in Dinsmore Township, and have since been citizens of the township.  In 1876 he purchased a farm in section 29, on which they have since resided.  They have six children - two sons and four daughters.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 245
  Dinsmore Twp. -
JOHN H. FRIDLEY, son of George and Eliza Fridley, was born in Franklin Township, Shelby County, Mar. 31, 1835, where he passed his minority days.  He has made farming his vocation, and now owns a good farm in section 24, Dinsmore Townshi, on which he has resided since 1863.  Dec. 16, 1856, he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John and Margaret Taylor who was born in Dinsmore Township, this county, Sept. 3, 1836.  By this union he has ten children, three sons and seven daughters.
Source 2: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 244
  Green Twp. -
PERRY L. FRAZIER, Dealer in General Merchandise, Plattsville, Ohio.
     Mr. Frazier, a son of George W. and Mary Frazier, was born in Green Township, Shelby County, Ohio, June 16, 1837.  The early part of his life was spent as a workman at the stone and brick mason trade until in 1858, when he began teaching school, which he followed a few years.  In 1862 he enlisted in Company C, 99th O. V. I., and served as a private until Mar. 24, 1865, when he was discharged from the service, and returned home.  In February, 1873, he engaged in the mercantile business in Plattsville, which he has since been conducting successfully.  Nov. 23, 1865, he married Miss Louisa Woodmancy, daughter of John Woodmancy, by whom he has five children, two son and three daughters.
Source 2: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 205
  Dinsmore Twp. -
JOHN W. FRIDLEY, son of Lewis and Susannah Fridley, was born in Pickaway County, O., Feb. 14, 1822, where his boyhood days were spent on a farm.  In the spring of 1847 he came to Shelby County and made his home with his brother George Fridley, in Franklin Township.  About three years prior to his coming to this county, or in 1844, he purchased the S. E. quarter of section 23, Dinsmore Township.  During the summer of 1847 he erected a dwelling on his land, and made some other improvements.  Oct. 10, 1847, he married Miss Martha J., daughter of Adam and Sarah Young.  Miss Young was born in Pickaway County, O., Sept. 8, 1824, and came to this county with her parents in 1830 or '31.  Mr. and Mrs. Fridley settled on his land in Dinsmore Township, on which they have resided.  They reared a family of five children, viz., Adam, Sarah L., Jason B. F., John W. A., and Eliza L.  Mr. Fridley has made farming his principal vocation, and now owns a good farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which he is conducting with success.
Source 2: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 245
  Van Buren Twp. -
JACOB FRITZ, a native of Germany, came to this county in 1861, and settled on sections 6 and 7, where he purchased 120 acres of land, which he still owns, as also a ninety acre farm in section 21.  In 1853 he married Barbara Hiel, who was also a native of Germany.  Their children are Jacob, Adam, Lena, Charles, Phillip, Lizzie, Meanna, August, Emma, Flora.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio and representative citizens - Evansville, Ind. - 1913 - Page 253
  Cynthian Twp. -
DR. G. W. FULKERSON.
     The Ancestors of the Fulkersons are from Holland and England, but who they were, or when they came, we cannot learn.  The first we know of them was in the person of Joseph Farling Fulkersonb, the father of the above.  He was born in New Jersey in the year 1796.  When a young man he went to Pennsylvania.  It was here, in the year 1822, that he married Margaret A. Messinger.  They resided in Easton, Pa.  About the year 1826 they removed to the city of New York, where Dr. Fulkerson was born in 1828.  In 1839 they emigrated to Monroe County, Ohio.  From there they removed to Crawford County, Ohio, where he died in 1875.  His wife died at the same place in 1874.  They reared a family of nine children.  Dr. G. W. was the fourth of the children.  He lived with his parents until he had arrived at his majority, at which time he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Joel Johnston of Bucyrus.  He remained there but a short time, when he and his preceptor went to Bellefontaine, and engaged in the drug trade until 1855, when they dissolved partnership, and Dr. Fulkerson went to Pleasant Hill, Ohio, and associated himself with Dr. Cable in the practice of medicine.  In 1857 he married Elizabeth Nishwitz, of West Milton, Miami County, and the same year came to Newport, Shelby County, Ohio.  He took his medical course, and graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati in 1859.  He has been for a number of years a member of the Eclectic Medical Society of Ohio.  His wife died in 1858.  In 1876 he married Miss Maggie Mills, a daughter of D. C. Mills, one of the pioneers of Cynthian Township.  Mrs. Fulkerson was born near Newport in 1852.  By this union they have two children, John Medaris, born 1878 and Walter Roy, born 1880.  The doctor is engaged in the drug trade in connection with the practice of medicine, at which he has been engaged for the past twenty-five years.  He has been one of the leading spirits in starting and building up the M. E. Church of his town.  Although not a member of the church at the time of its erection, he was made one of the trustees and building committee.  He has given much of  his time and means to the public interests of his town and township.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 273
  Orange Twp. -
ISAAC FULTON was born in Shelby County in the year 1842.  He is a son of Robert and Rebecca Bigham Fulton, who settled in Shelby County in 1839.  In 1866 he married Nancy Barkalow a daughter of John Barkalow.  They have one child, Wm. B., born 1867.  They are located on part of the Barkalow homestead in Orange Township.
Source: History of Shelby County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, PA: R. Sutton & So. - 1883 - Page 195

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