Fish, Edward G.

FISH, PEASE

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FISH, Edward G.
Farmer and proprietor of coal mines; Sec. 26; P. O. Colfax; born in Chambersburg, Penn. in 1837; came to Richland Co., Ohio in 1839; to this county in 1856. Owns his home farm of eighty acres, valued at $60 per acre; also, Black Heath Mines, fifty-seven acres of coal lands, with a bed of coal five feet eight to seven feet thick; discovered by himself, opened out and first coal raised August 10, 1876. Married Edith M. PEASE in 1864. She was born in Mansfield, Ohio, August 6, 1839. They have two children - Jessie M. and Gaylord B. Republican. Mr. FISH was one of the first prospecting party in the Territories of Oregon and Idaho, and passed with the first prospecting party from Colorado to Oregon; thence to Passerville, Idaho; was one of the party discovering the mines at Boise River. He with a party of others, laid out Boise City with ropes on a Sunday afternoon, each taking corner lots. Left Happy Camp with a party of twelve, and returned to Jasper CO. in August 1863. Has passed a very adventurous life on the Western plains. ~ "Poweshiek Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)