John Fern Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Hazel Green, Biographical Sketches, Page 1008

JOHN FERN, Smelter, Hazel Green; established in 1853; born in England in 1827; 
came to America in 1830, with parents and settled in Sinsinawa Mound; went to 
Iowa in 1834, and lived until 1877, when he removed to this village.  Married 
Elizabeth Spensley, a native of England, in 1848; she died in 1875.  He has six 
children – William, Ellen, Lillie A., Frank, Charles and Robert.