BIO: David FIEDLER, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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516  COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.  

  DAVID FIEDLER. The subject of this sketch is one of the prominent and 
representative farmers of Penn township, Centre county, and has made 
his home upon his present fine farm of sixty acres for more than forty 
years. The fields are well tilled, the farm buildings neat and 
substantial, and, in fact, the whole place presents an air of thrift 
and prosperity, which is always seen about the place of an industrious 
and through agriculturist.
  A native of Centre county, Mr. Fiedler was born in Haines township, 
August 28, 1826, a son of David and Catharine (Neese) Fiedler. The 
father, who was a son of Jacob Fiedler, died when our subject, his only 
child, was but six years of age, after which he and his mother went to 
live with her father, Peter Neese, who was a farmer of Penn township, 
located on Penn creek. There he was reared in the usual manner of 
farmer boys, and acquired his early education in the subscription 
schools, his first teacher being Henry Raughhauser. He completed his 
literary course in the "Heckman School," but his advantages along that 
line were meager. In 1855 he married Miss Mary J. Wise, who was born in 
Haines township, February 23, 1837, a daughter of John and Catharine 
(Stover) Wise. One daughter blessed their union: Susan C., now the wife 
of Emanuel Neese, of Gregg township, Centre county.
  Previous to his marriage, Mr. Fiedler had worked for some time upon 
his present farm, then owned by his aunts, Elizabeth and Christina 
Neese, and after his marriage he began his domestic life there. After 
the death of his aunts he purchased the farm, for which he had to go 
greatly in debt, but by industry, perseverance and economy he soon paid 
off the indebtedness.
  Politically, Mr. Fiedler is an ardent Democrat, and served his fellow 
citizens in the capacity of inspector of elections, overseer of the 
poor, supervisor and school director, the duties of which offices he 
discharged in a prompt and efficient manner. A man of unquestioned 
integrity and honor, he has lived peacefully with his neighbors, having 
never been involved in a lawsuit, and is held in the high regard by all 
who know him. He and his estimable wife are earnest and sincere 
Christians, faithful members of the Lutheran Church.