Amos Fancher

FANCHER, STOOPS

Posted By: Marthann Kohl-Fuhs (email)
Date: 3/27/2009 at 13:21:07

AMOS FANCHER, of Cameron Township, has been identified with the history of Audubon County, Iowa, since the year 1880. He was born in Keokuk County, near Sigourney, September 13, 1856, and is a son of William and Rebecca Fancher, natives of Pennsylvania. Amos Fancher is the youngest son of a family of nine children, two sisters being younger than he. He was reared to the life of a farmer, and received a fair education in the common schools. He remained with his parents until he reached his twenty first year, when he took up the responsibilities of life and began seeking the fortune the world might hold for him. His first investment was in forty acres of land, on which he lived two years. At the end of that time, in the spring of 1880, he came to Audubon County and bought 160 acres of raw prairie laud. Later he made an additional purchase of eighty acres, and afterward he bought forty acres more, making 280 acres in all. Mr. Fancher's principal success has been in raising hogs. He also feeds a large number of cattle, and is rearing some high grades of horses. All the improvements upon the farm have been made by Mr. Fancher. He has erected a comfortable residence, a good barn, and other necessary buildings. In 1884 occurred the marriage of Amos Fancher and Cora Stoops, a daughter of Joseph and Harriet Stoops, and a native of Mahaska County, Iowa. They are the parents of three children Stella, Myrtle, and an infant unnamed. Mr. Fancher adheres to the principles of the Democratic party.

1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO

pages 784-785