C. H. Fryer

FRYER

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 9/21/2005 at 20:41:10

C. M. Fryer is a prominent landholder of Fertile township. He was born in Oswego Co., N. Y., June 23, 1841. He is a son of William Fryer, a native of England, who emigrated to the United States and settled in Oswego county in 1842. He afterwards went to Walworth Co., Wis. The subject of this sketch was of ten children, the ninth. He grew to manhood and received a common school education. He was reared a farmer which occupation he still follows. In 1863 he went to Olmstead Co., Minn., where he was married to Mary A. Pittts. A native of Illinois, born April 14, 1847. In the fall of 1878 Mr. Fryer came to Fertile township and settled on section 36. He is one of the substantial farmers of Fertile township. His farm contians 365 acres under a good state of cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Fryer are the parents of five children – Stephen, Earl, Rueben, William and Clara.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 766.