"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN
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CAPT. PETER FESLER, Justice of the Peace and cabinet-maker at Morgantown, is
a native of Botetourt County, Va., was born April 27, 1836, and is the third
of the family of John and Rebecca (Bickner) Fesler, natives of Virginia and
of German extraction, who came to this county in 1838, and remained until
their deaths. Peter Fesler received a plain education, worked on the farm,
and when eighteen years old settled to learn carpentering, which he
afterward followed. April, 1861, he enlisted for three months in Company K,
Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was in the first engagement of the war
at Philippi, Va. After this term he re-enlisted in Company G,
Twenty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was made First Lieutenant and
afterward Captain; served three years, and was in all the battles of the
Potomac division. After his service expired, he was retained and given
command of Company E, Seventieth Indiana Regiment, and so served until the
end, being discharged at Washington, D. C. On returning to peace, he
resumed his trade, and in 1880 began business for himself. December 31,
1869, he married Miss Emma Collett, of Johnson County, Ind., to which union
have followed three children--Leo K., Mayo R. and Luna A. Mr. Fesler is an
ardent Republican, and was made Justice of the Peace in 1882. He and wife
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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