Ferdinand Fahr 1838-1905

FAHR, DEMPLE, OBRIEN

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 9/27/2001 at 11:18:31

FERDINAND FAHR.
OBITUARY SKETCH.

Ferdinand Fahr was born in Saxony of French and German parentage Oct. 7, 1838. His father died when he was a small boy and the mother and family came to America in 1850, landing at New Orleans. They lived for some time at Algiers, Louisiana, where they mother and a sister are buried.

He served an apprenticeship as a baker at St. Louis, coming from there to Keokuk where he was a photographer with Van Greken. He enlisted in the 1st Iowa Infantry at the beginning of the war, and afterward in the 5th Iowa Cavalry. He was once wounded.

He was for a time a photographer at Keosauqua and at Bonaparte.

He was married to Miss Mary Demple Jan. 9, 1866, and to this union three children were born, viz., G. E. Fahr of Bonaparte; Beatrice O'Brien of Mystic, Iowa; and Miss Anna Fahr of St. Michaels, Maryland. They moved to Burlington in 1879 where the wife died Oct. 30, 1806.

He joined the Masonic Lodge at Bonaparte, being initiated Feb. 22, 1870, passed April 13, 1870, and raised May 13, 1870, and was also a member of the I. O. O. F. and G. A. R.

He visited in Bonaparte for he last time about two years ago, having lived recently at Dayton, Ohio. Feb. 16 he entered the Soldiers Home at Dayton, where he died the next day, Friday, Feb. 17, 1905, of acute peritonitis, and was buried with military honors in the cemetery of that institution.

Source: Entler Scrapbook, vol. 3, Iowa Historical Library, Iowa City, IA

I am NOT related and am posting this obit for those who may find this person in their family history.