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: J. CORWIN FERGUS, farmer and stock raiser, Section 29,
Porter Precinct, P. O. Humboldt, was born and reared in Miami County,
Ohio,
and was identified with farming there until 1868, when he located here
and
has very actively conducted his present business since. In 1871 he
married
Miss Frances Forgy, who was born and reared in Clark County, Ohio. They
have
two sons and one daughter living--Ernest S., Oma L., and Corwin C.--and
have
buried one daughter--Olga, aged two years--in 1876, in Mound Cemetery,
Porter Precinct. Mr. Corwin Fergus has been an active worker in the
furtherance of all measures tending toward the growth and development of
the
industrial and social life of his locality since coming here. He is at
present one of the board of directors of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank
of
Humboldt, which incumbency he has held since its organization. His
military
record is as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, with which regiment he was in active service from
1864
until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged.