Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . ^USEPII WILSON FIFER. ThisV|: distinguished gentleman was|,;^^|»« elected Governor of Illinois^f:)®jjP%ill November 6, 1888. He wasp(>liularly known during thecampaign as Private Joe. Hehad served with great devotionto his country during the Re-bellion, in the Thirty-thirdIllinois Infantry. A native ofVirginia, he was born in parents, John and M
Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . ^USEPII WILSON FIFER. ThisV|: distinguished gentleman was|,;^^|»« elected Governor of Illinois^f:)®jjP%ill November 6, 1888. He wasp(>liularly known during thecampaign as Private Joe. Hehad served with great devotionto his country during the Re-bellion, in the Thirty-thirdIllinois Infantry. A native ofVirginia, he was born in parents, John and Mary(Daniels) Fifer, were Americanborn, though of German de-scent. His father was a brickand stone mason, and an oldHenry Clay Whig in polities. John and MaryFifer had nine children, o/whom Joseph was thesixth, and naturally, with so large a family, it wasall the father could do to keep the wolf from thedoor, to say nothing of giving his children any-thing like good educational advantages. Joseph attended sciiool for a while in Yirgina,but it was not a good school, and when his fatlierremoved to the West, in , Joseph had not ad-vanced much further than the First was sixteen then and suffered a greatmisfortu
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