RIX, JOHN

RIX, HAZLIT

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/30/2019 at 15:02:58

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

RIX, JOHN, surgeon dentist ; was born in Canada Jan. 4, 1839 : came to the States in infancy, and was brought up in Western New York, thence came to Michigan. During the war, he enlisted in Detroit Aug. 28, 1862, in the 4th Regt. Mich. V. C, Co. A ; he was promoted and commissioned Lieutenant of Co. G March 19, 1863; his regiment was in seventy-five battles and skirmishes, and was the banner regiment of the State; it was the regiment which captured Jeff Davis ; was mustered out at Nashville July 1, 1865. After the war, Lieut. Rix returned to Michigan, studied dentistry, and took a medical course at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor; he came to Iowa and located at Fort Madison in August. 1874, and since then has practiced here. He married Miss Maria E. Hazlit, from Cass Co., Mich., Jan. 1, 1867; they have one daughter — Lottie A.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879