Fisher, Levi

FISHER

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 7/5/2021 at 12:56:32

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.628

FISHER, LEVI, White Breast Township, hardware merchant; P. O. Lacona; born Feb. 6, 1823, in Chester county, Pennsylvania; parents moved to Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1825; here he learned the tinner and coppersmith's trade by serving five years' apprenticeship; he went to Union county, Indiana, in 1843; he came to this county in April, 1872; he enlisted Aug. 21, 1861, as a private in Co. F, Nineteenth Iowa Infantry, and was promoted to First Lieutenant Aug. 21, 1862, and again promoted, to Captain, on the 7th of June, 1863, and served to the close of the war and was honorably discharged July 6, 1865; he was in the battles of Prairie Grove and Vicksburg; he was taken prisoner at Organza and sent to Tyler, Texas, where he was kept ten months, and then sent to the mouth of Red River for exchange, in July, 1864, when he returned to his command at New Orleans; he was at the taking of Spanish Fort in Mobile Bay, and in many other skirmishes; he was twice married; first to Maria Bowlsby, of New Jersey; they had two children: Mary J. and Emma; Mary H. is dead; wife died Aug. 3, 1853; married again March 21, 1854, to Mary, daughter of David R. Lee, of Louisa county, Iowa; they have five children: Blanche B., Albert L., William H., Anna M. and Mamie; Albert L. and Mamie died in infancy.