J. R. Fifeld

FIFELD, PERKINS, HUTCHINSON

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Date: 2/24/2002 at 20:01:12

J. R. Fifield was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, on the 10th day of August, 1841, and is a son of Robert and Betsy (Perkins) Fifield. His mother was a native of New York State, and his father of Vermont. J. R. received his education and grew to manhood in his native county.
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During the first year of our late rebellion, he enlisted in Co. F, 60th N. Y. Infantry, as a color sergeant, and was discharged at Wautchie, Tennessee, in 1863. He afterwards re-enlisted in the veteran volunteer corps – same regiment – and was again honorably discharged at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1865. Upon receiving his dismissal he returned to his native county and engaged in the furniture trade until 1872, when he came to Iowa and settled in New Hartford, Butler county. The year following his arrival he again embarked in the furniture business, and continued in that branch of trade until 1878, when he opened a wagon shop. Mr. Fifield was elected president of the school board in 1882. He was married in 1865 to Miss A. I. Hutchinson, a native of New York. They have two children – Maud A. and Allie.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 469