Biographical Sketch of Benjamin F. Fielder, Greene County, Missouri,
Campbell Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Fielder is the son of John L. and Mary (Denton) Fielder, and was
born in Maury county, Tennessee, February 7, 1825.  His parents were 
early settlers of Tennessee, and his father was at the battle of New
Orleans.  Benjamin was reared and educated in Maury and Hickman count-
ies, Tennessee, and at about the age of twenty-one he began manufactur-
ing cotton gins at Columbia, Tennessee, and subsequently learned the 
carpenter's trade, which he followed exclusively, with the exception of
two years in which he was an overseer.  He came to Greene county, 
Missouri, in November, 1855, and settled in Washington township, where 
he lived until the beginning of the civil war.  He enlisted in the 
militia and was taken prisoner upon the 8th of January, 1863, but was
paroled in a few days.  At the close of the war he settled where he now
resides, three and one-half miles southwest of Springfield, where he 
has one hundred and fifteen acres, all under cultivation.  Mr. Fielder
was married October 7, 1855, to Mary Estes.  They had four children,
viz.: Mary A., Margaret R., William T. and Andrew J.  His first wife
died in April, 1863, and February 6, 1876, Mr. Fielder was married to 
Mary S. Barnes.  Their union has been blest with three children, Emma
M., Cordie B. and Benjamin F.  Mr. and Mrs. Fielder are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, and in politics he is a Democrat.

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