Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St Joseph counties, Indiana, together with biographies of many prominent men of northern Indiana and of the whole state, both living and dead . eter and HesterWise, and to their union a daughter has been born named Masy. The Doctor be-longs to the civic society of the A. F. and A. M. Lodge, JTo. 570, of Middlebury,and he is now acting as its secretary. He is a Democrat, he and his wife are mem-bers of the Lutheran Church, and he has always been a scholarly man of scientifictastes. Henry H. FrcKENScsEK. A large class of the farmers of Clay towns
Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St Joseph counties, Indiana, together with biographies of many prominent men of northern Indiana and of the whole state, both living and dead . eter and HesterWise, and to their union a daughter has been born named Masy. The Doctor be-longs to the civic society of the A. F. and A. M. Lodge, JTo. 570, of Middlebury,and he is now acting as its secretary. He is a Democrat, he and his wife are mem-bers of the Lutheran Church, and he has always been a scholarly man of scientifictastes. Henry H. FrcKENScsEK. A large class of the farmers of Clay township led suchmodest and quiet lives as to be seldom heard of outside of their own township. Theyare doing fine work in their own community, but do not care to mingle in the morepublic matters of political life, and devote all their time and energies to the cultivat-ion of their farms and the development of the resources of their vicinity. Such mendeserve more mention than they ordinarily receive, and it is a pleasure to here pre-sent one of them in the person of Henry H. Fickenscher, who was born in the town-ship in which he now resides February 29, 1859, his parents being John and Caro-. -j^J^MOd^ MEMOIRS OF INDIANA. 239 line (Fox) Fiekenscher, natives of Grermany. The father learned the millers tradein his native land and followed that business until coming to America about the year1853, after which he at once engaged in farming in Clay township of this he met and married Miss Yo-i^ whose parents, George and Anna Fox, werenative Germans, and settled on a farm near Lakeville, this county. John Fieken-scher lived in Clay township for several years, of which he was one of the most sub-stantial of the German residents, and became the owner of 160 acres of fertile farm-ing land. He did military duty in his native land in accordance with the laws ofthat country. His death occurred on the old homestead, October 3, 1882, his wifesdeath having taken place a year earlier. Th
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