Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Fiester, John L. 1858 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOHN L. FIESTER.

    The business interests of Hobart find a worthy representative in John L.
Fiester, a general merchant of the town. He has always lived in this section of
the country, and early became imbued with the enterprising spirit which has been
the dominant factor in producing the wonderful and substantial development of
the middle west. His birth occurred in Chicago on the 28th of November, 1858,
his parents being Jacob and Mary (Thering) Fiester, both of whom were born in
Switzerland. Coming to America in early life they were married in this country.
The father was employed as a fireman in steamboats on the Mississippi river for
about ten years, and in 1854 he went to Chicago, where he secured employment in
a rolling mill. His last days, however, were passed in Hobart, where he died in
1900 and where his widow is still living. They were the parents of thirteen
children, six of whom yet survive, three sons and three daughters.

    John L. Fiester, the third of the living children, was reared and educated
in the city of his nativity, where he remained until eighteen years of age, when
he secured employment on a farm in Lake county, Indiana, being thus employed for
five years. He came to Hobart in 1883, and was engaged in the butchering
business for five years in partnership with James Roper. He then sold out and
formed a partnership with Lewis Passow, this relation being maintained for two
years, at the end of which time Mr. Passow died. Mr. Fiester then took entire
charge of the business, but a year later admitted John Killigrew, and they were
together in business for eleven years, when Mr. Fiester sold out. He then turned
his attention to the hardware trade, conducting a store for about six months,
and his next venture was in the line of jewelry merchandising, becoming
proprietor of the store which he now owns. He carries a well selected line of
general merchandise, and by reason of his earnest efforts to please his patrons,
his reasonable prices and his straightforward dealing, he has secured a
patronage that is constantly growing and has assumed profitable proportions.

    The home life of Mr. Fiester is very pleasant. He was married June 28, 1883,
to Miss Amanda Passow, a daughter of Ernst and Mamie Passow. This union has been
blessed with three sons: Frank, Edward and Walter. Mr. Fiester is a member of
the Independent Order of Foresters, and politically is a Democrat. He has been a
representative of Hobart's business interests for twenty-one years, and his
enterprise has contributed to the commercial activity of the town and at the
same time has made his own career one of signal success, in which he has risen
from a humble financial position to one of affluence.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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