| Name |
FETTER, Jacob |
| Birth |
29 Dec 1836 |
Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Biography |
- JACOB FETTER, lumber dealer and proprietor of a planing mill, was born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1836, son of Samuel and Mary (Wise) Fetter, natives of Cumberland county, this State. His father was a carpenter by trade and moved to Sunbury in 1832. He was captain of a militia company and was familiarly known as Captain Fetter. His wife, Mary Wise, was born, September 23,1802, and died in 1879, while he was born, February 18, 1798, and died in 1887. They reared a family of six children, four of whom are living: Henry G., a retired photographer of Peru, Indiana; Rebecca, wife of Gideon Conrad, of Purdytown; Jacob, and James H., who resides in Peru, Indiana. Our subject was reared in Sunbury and received a common school education. He learned the carpenter trade, which he followed from 1854 to 1880, when he removed to Milton and in 1881 established his present business. In 1860 he was married to Jane Ann Gossler, daughter of Samuel Gossler, of Sunbury. To this union were born two children: William G., who married October 20, 1887, Margaret B. Kremer, a daughter of Daniel Kremer of Philadelphia, and James Herbert; both of these sons are engaged in business with their father. In 1865 he went out as a corporal of the Seventy-fourth PennsIvania Volunteers. He is a member of Sunbury Lodge, No. 22, F. & A. M., is a Republican, served nine years as school director of Sunbury, and with his family belongs to the Lutheran church of Milton.
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| Biography |
- Jacob Fetter was born at Sunbury, Pa., December 29, 1836. He received a common school education. He learned the trade of carpenter and gradually became a contractor and builder, being associated with his brother, William A., who was also a member of the Fraternity, being initiated in Lodge No. 22, February 19, 1867, one day after Jacob was entered in the same Lodge.
Jacob went to Milton immediately after the great fire of May 14, 1880, where he was superintendent of a lumber yard, which he purchased a year later. In 1883 he built the large planing mill which he operated until his retirement, about 1905. His two sons, William G. and J. Herbert Fetter, became associated with their father and now conduct the business under the firm name of Jacob Fetter's Sons. During the Civil War he enlisted in Company C, 74th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, as a corporal.
He was initiated in Lodge No. 22, February 18, 1867; was trustee 1872; withdrew April 4, 1898 ; was admitted a member of Milton Lodge, No. 256, July 4, 1898. He died February 19, 1910.
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| Military |
12 Sep 1862 |
- He enlisted in Company D, 3rd Inf. as a Private. He was discharged 25 Sep 1862.
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| Military |
14 Mar 1865 |
- He enlisted as a corporal in the 74th Pa. Volunteers during the Civil War.
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| Census (desc) |
1870 |
Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States [4] |
| working as a carpenter |
| Census (desc) |
1880 |
Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States [5] |
| working as a house carpenter |
| Census (desc) |
1900 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States [6] |
| living at 74 Center St. and working as a manufacturer of doors and sashes |
| _UID |
31ECF6BD1DE9D748A97661D2FC84F0742BF0 |
| Death |
19 Feb 1910 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States [2, 7] |
| Burial |
23 Feb 1910 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States [2] |
Address:
Harmony Cemetery |
| Person ID |
I105 |
Milton Families |
| Last Modified |
26 Dec 2015 |
| Father |
FETTER, William Samuel, b. 18 Feb 1798, Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States d. 23 Oct 1883, Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 85 years) |
| Mother |
WISE, Mary, b. 23 Sep 1802, Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States d. 22 Apr 1879, Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 76 years) |
| Family ID |
F36 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
GOSSLER, Jane Ann, b. 27 Sep 1838, Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States d. 1 May 1919, Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 80 years) |
| Marriage |
1860 |
| Children |
| + | 1. FETTER, William Gossler, b. 22 Apr 1864 d. 10 Oct 1931, Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 67 years) |
| + | 2. FETTER, James Herbert, b. 25 Apr 1867 d. 22 Mar 1925, Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 57 years) |
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| Family ID |
F37 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2024 |
1836 - 1910 (73 years)
