MIAMI COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed for use in the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Karin Lange
klange@nque.com
August 28, 2000
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Andreas History of the State of NE, pub 1882 


Richardson co, NE: ALEXANDER M. FERGUS, contractor and builder, Humboldt,
is
a native of Ohio, and was born and raised in Miami County. He was, in his
youth, engaged in the tanner and currier business with his father, who
was
prominently identified with that industry then. While engaged in that
business he married Hannah Putterbaugh, by whom he had two children--a
daughter and a son. She died, and he afterward married Joanna T. Penny,
by
whom he has seven children--five sons and two daughters. In 1856 he came
to
Nebraska and located land in Nemaha County, getting Certificate No. 14,
entered at Omaha, and was engaged in farming until the breaking out of
the
war. He then returned to Indiana, and enlisted in Company F, One Hundred
and
Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was transferred to the
Department of the Cumberland, Fourth Army Corps, Second Brigade, First
Division, and was mustered out in Nashville, Tenn, with an honorable
discharge. After this he returned to Indiana, and was principally
identified
there with his present industry until 1881, when he came here and has
been
prominently connected with his present business since. Francis Fergus,
the
ancestor of the present family of Ferguses, came from Ireland, and came
to
America before the Revolutionary war and served in the Continental Army.
First settled in Cumberland County, Penn., and married, after which he
immigrated to Rockbridge County, Va. Hisson, James Fergus, the father of
the
subject of this sketch, settled in Miami County, Ohio, in 1808.