Contributed by Charlene Saunders:
JOSEPH FIDLER is one of the intelligent and enterprising farmers of Wea
Township, who has been identified with the growth of the county ever
since the year 1829. His father, JACOB FIDLER, was born in Rockingham
County, Virginia, and married in Ross County, Ohio, ELIZABETH STORMS, a
native of Ohio and of German ancestry. In October, 1829, he came with
his family, consisting of wife and four children, to Tippecanoe County,
in a wagon drawn by three horses, and located in Perry Township three
miles northeast of Dayton, where he entered eighty acres of land. Here
he resided some four or five years, and then removed to Sheffield
Township, and after a residence of three or four years there he finally
settled in Wea Township, where he died in 1851. His wife died in 1871,
and they were both buried in Wildcat cemetery.
Seven of their children are living. JOSEPH, whose name heads this
sketch, was born October 1, 1825, in Ross County, Ohio, and was four
years old when his parents came with him to the wilds of Indiana, and
here, in the primitive log cabin school-house, did he receive his
education, and on the pioneer farm, his agricultural training. He
located upon his present farm in the spring of 1851, a portion of which
is the old homestead of his father. Here he has ever since resided; and
the story-and-a-half residence, substantial farm buildings, and other
improvements, show how skillfully and industriously he has enhanced the
value of the place. The farm comprises 500 acres.
In his political sympathies he is a Democrat, as was his father--has
served on executive committees of his party a number of times. In
April, 1886, he was elected township trustee. Frebruary 13, 1846, he
married MISS HANNAH HOLLIDAY, a daughter of JOHN and RACHEL (JEAMES)
HOLLIDAY, who were early settlers of this county.
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana
pp. 536-537