John L. Fry From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 1013.

TOWN OF ELLENBORO

JOHN L. FRY, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Lancaster; was born in Mercer Co., Penn., April, 1825; came to Wisconsin with his parents. He owns 160 acres of land, which he has made by his own industry. He enlisted at the age of 18 in Company B, 43d W. V. I., in September, the year 1864; was at the battle of Johnsonville, Tenn.; discharged at the close of the war. His wife, Hannah Hake, was born in Wisconsin, 1829; daughter of Elias and Nancy Hake, now residing in Clifton, Grant Co., Wis. Married Oct. 1, 1867; they have five children - Virgil, Virginia, Ruby, Prudence, Luella. In politics, Democrat; in religion, liberal believer; Pathmaster in 1880.

 


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