Samuel Fetters

FETTERS, DICKERHOFF, DANIELS, OLMSTEAD

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 20:00:40

Samuel Fetters is a son of Philip and Catherine (Dickerhoff) Fetters, and was born in Stark county, Ohio, September 9, 1827, where he remained until twenty-six years of age. His early life was passed on a farm. He then spent one year in the State of Indiana, and in 1854 moved to Black Hawk county, Iowa; from there he moved to Willoughby, Iowa, where he remained four weeks; then removing to New Jerusalem, Butler county, remaining until the following August, he returned to Willoughby, purchased town lots, and built a house, dwelling there about twelve years; he then purchased and settled on a farm on section 8 of Beaver township, where he now owns 110 acres of land.
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Mr. Fetters was a postmaster at Willoughby two years, and has also held the offices of trustee and constable. In 1850 he was married to Miss Catherine Ann Daniels, a native of Ohio. They have had eight children, five of whom are living – John, Clark, George, Samuel and Ida May, the wife of William M. Olmstead. Mr. Fetter’s father died in 1855; his mother followed in 1862.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 470