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History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1883

Page 340

   HENRY FIESER, keeper of the Eagle River Light since Au-
 gust 23, 1865 (see history of Light), was born in Germany January
 26, 1838; came to America in 1852, and made his home in Pittsburgh,
 Penn., where he was employed in a glass house till 1855, when he
 came to Lake Superior, and engaged as engineer at the Cliff Mine.
 In the summer of 1862, he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-seventh
 Michigan Volunteers, under Capt. WILLIAM B. WRIGHT.  He was
 appointed Second Sergeant, and promoted to First Sergeant of his
 company in 1863.  While engaged before Petersburg, he received a
 gunshot wound in the left elbow joint, that caused the loss of his
 arm.  He was discharge May 6, 1865, at the Judiciary Square Hos-
 pital.  On his return to Lake Superior, he was appointed to his
 present position.  He was married in October, 1865, in Eagle River,
 to Miss DORA HELF, by whom he had two sons.  He lost his wife in
 1869.  He was married again, at Eagle River, to Mrs. ANN BETZING
 (widow).  Two children were born to this marriage, a son and a
 daughter.
 
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