BIOGRAPHY: James A. FITZGERALD, Juniata Co., PA
  
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  The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, 
  Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, 
  Pennsylvania.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, 
  Page 975.
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    JAMES A. FITZGERALD, farmer and stock-raiser, of Spruce Hill
  township, Juniata county, Pa., was born October 29, 1837, in the
  township in which he now resides. He is a brother of the late William
  H. Fitzgerald, of Greenwood township, Perry county; a sketch of his
  father is given in this work.
    James A. Fitzgerald received his education in the public schools of
  Spruce Hill township, beginning life as a farmer on his father's
  place, where he remained until in 1864, when he enlisted in Capt.
  Levi M. Coover's Company E, of the Two Hundredth Pennsylvania
  Volunteers, Col. Charles W. Diven commanding. The regiment was
  assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and participated with great
  credit in several of the bloody engagements around the city of
  Petersburg, Va. At the close of the war Mr. Fitzgerald returned home
  and followed farming on the homestead until 1879, when selling out,
  he purchased his present farm, in which he also conducts a
  flour-mill. He lost both the mill and dwelling house by fire, some
  time since, but has replaced the destroyed residence with a
  commodious building, besides improving the property in other ways. In
  1879, James A. Fitzgerald was married, in Tuscarora township, to Miss
  Nancy A. Reed, a native of that township, and a daughter of Robert
  and Diana (Enslow) Reed, both of whom were of English Quaker descent.
  To this union of Mr. Fitzgerald there has been born one child, Bessie
  V., still attending school.
    James A. Fitzgerald is universally respected in the community in
  which he lives, as a man of industry, integrity and sound judgment.
  In his political views he is a Democrat, but opposed to the free
  silver theory. He has held the position in the township of overseer
  of the poor.