Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ,; ;;oSI:PH WILSON FIFER. Thisdistinguished gentleman waselected Governor of IllinoisNovember 6, 1«88. He waspopularly known during thecampaign as Private Joe. Hehad served with great devotionto his country during the Re-bellion, in the Thirty-thirdlUiuois Infantry. A native ofVirginia, he was born in parents, Joiin and Mary(Daniels) Fifer, were Americanborn, though of German de-scent. His father was a brickand stone mason, and an oldlloury Clay Whig in politics. John and ]\IaryFifer had nine children,
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ,; ;;oSI:PH WILSON FIFER. Thisdistinguished gentleman waselected Governor of IllinoisNovember 6, 1«88. He waspopularly known during thecampaign as Private Joe. Hehad served with great devotionto his country during the Re-bellion, in the Thirty-thirdlUiuois Infantry. A native ofVirginia, he was born in parents, Joiin and Mary(Daniels) Fifer, were Americanborn, though of German de-scent. His father was a brickand stone mason, and an oldlloury Clay Whig in politics. John and ]\IaryFifer had nine children, of wliom Josepli was thesixtli, and naturally with so large a family it wasall the father could do to keep the wolf from thedoor; to nothing of giving his children au}--thing like good educational advantages. Young Joseph attended school some in Vir-ginia, but it was not a good school, and whenhis father removed to tl>e West, in 1857, Joseph hadnot advanced much further than the First Reader. Our subject was sixteen tlieu and suffered a greatmisfortune in the loss of his
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