Dade County, Missouri Biographies-Martin FIDLER

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889.
Published by Goodspeed.  Pg. 808
 
Martin Fidler, another enterprising farmer of Washington Township, and 
the son of David and Elizabeth (Williams) Fidler, was born in Lawrence 
County, Ind., in 1844.  David Fidler was born in North Carolina, moved 
with his parents to Indiana, and was married in Lawrence County, Ind., 
in 1844.  David Fidler was born in North Carolina, moved with his parents
to Indiana, and was married in Lawrence County, of that State, to Miss 
Williams who died there in 1861.  The father died in Dade County, Mo., 
about 1884, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He was 
a farmer by occupation.  The mother was a member of the Christian Church.
Martin Fidler was the youngest of two sons and one daughter born to his 
parents, and received his education principally by his own exertion.  
In 1861, when seventeen years of age, he joined Company G, twenty-seventy
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served four months, when he was disabled.
He afterwards joined Company G, of the fourth Indiana Cavalry, Seventy-
seventh Regiment, and served until the close of the war.  He was in many
prominent engagements, was all through the Georgia campaign, and was 
wounded in the left shoulder at Montgomery, Ala., April 11, 1865, and was
disabled from further service.  He received his discharge at Louisville, 
Ky., and returned home.  He was married in 1870 to Miss Nancy Ann, daughter
of John and Mary Parman, and to them were born four children, three now 
living.  Mrs. Fidler was born in Kentucky, and her parents are yet living.
In 1871 Mr. Fidler moved to Jackson County, Mo., thence to Cass County, 
and finally to Dade County, where he has a fine farm of 200 acres on 
Turnback Creek, 150 acres under cultivation.  He is one of the 
representative farmers of the county, and is engaged in improving stock, 
cattle, horse and hogs.  Politically a Republican, his first vote was for 
Gen. U. S. Grant in 1868.  He is a member of Greenfield Post of the G. A. R.
Mrs. Fidler is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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