Untitled From the Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 594

HENRY H. FASSBENDER, one of the successful agriculturists of Wyalusing township, Grant county, is numbered among those who fought for the Union when the States of the south threatened its dissolution. He was born in Germany, in 1836, a son of Adolph FASSBENDER, and was about nine years of age when the family emigrated to the United States, locating in Dane county, Wis., where the parents spent the remainder of their lives. Of their nine children Henry H. was the only one in the war.

Our subject entered the service as a member of Company F, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, being enrolled Nov. 19, 1863, as a private, but when discharged, July 19, 1865, he was holding the rank of corporal. He was in active service during the whole time, either with his regiment or on detached duty, and took part in the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns, and also in Wilson's famous raid, near the close of the war.

Mr. FASSBENDER has resided on the farm in Wyalusing township, Grant county, which he now occupies, since 1862, and has successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Miss Mclinda SUTTON, came to the county with her parents when but two years old, and here made her home until called to her final rest, March 18, 1896, at the age of fifty-three. By her marriage to Mr. FASSBENDER she became the mother of ten children, four sons and six daughters, of whom all the sons and three daughters are living at the present writing (1900). The family have quite a comfortable home, and its members are people of prominence in the community where they reside. Notwithstanding his arduous service, Mr. FASSBENDER still enjoys fairly good health. He was a faithful soldier, is a good citizen, and is an honored member of Grand Army Post, No. 23.




This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck