HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, page 523

Levi H. Fountain was born in Sussex Co., N. J., June 15, 1818. When eighteen years of age he went to New York, and there learned the carpenter trade, and worked at it in that State for fourteen years.

He was married Aug 1, 1839, to Elizabeth Kiker, of St. Lawrence Co., N.Y. She was born in the city of New York March 26, 1809. In 1852 Mr. Fountain went to Detroit, Mich., and was employed in the Michigan Central car shops for twelve years. On Aug. 18, 1862, he enlisted in Company E. 33^rd regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served until 1863. In April, 1864, he came to Iowa and located in Mitchell, where he resided for seven years. In 1870 he removed to his present farm, on section 21, Union Township. He has a farm of eighty acres under good cultivation.

Mr. Fountain has served as township clerk, and at present is a justice of the peace. He is a member of Harmony Lodge, A. F. & A. M., the I. O. O. F. fraternity and Brush Post, G. A. R. of Osage, Iowa,

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, April 2003