Fish, A. J.

FISH

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FISH, A. J.
Retired merchant, Kellogg; born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., in 1818; moved to Kane Co., Ill., in 1850, thence to Whiteside Co. (Fulton), where he erected a first-class hotel which he conducted until 1859, when he went to California, Mo., and went into the mercantile business; owing to the excited state of the country in 1861, he returned to Fulton with his family; having located them, he again visited Missouri, and superintended the erection of stockade forts under the United States Government; in 1863, he returned to Fulton, and soon after went into the mercantile business in Jackson Co., Iowa, and in Newton, this county in 1865. Mr. F. owns 248 acres of land, valued at $35 per acre, also three houses and lots in Kellogg, valued at $3,000; they have four children-- Mary E., born May 19, 1848; Bertha, born Feb. 16, 1851; Walter E., born Oct. 6, 1861; and Geo. H., born Oct. 14, 1866. Mrs. Fish is a Congregationalist; he is a Greenbacker.~ "Kellogg Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)