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• FSID: LD3Z-QCK
• Residence: 1860, Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1870, Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1883, Nebraska, USA
• Residence: 1884, Manawa, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence: 1905, Manawa, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence: 1920, Manawa, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA

Notes:

Short title: A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin 1917
Author: John M. Ware

J. D. Fowzer is one of the oldest men in the service of the Green Bay & Western Railway. He has been with that company for more than thirty years, and all that time his home and duties have been at Manawa. Mr, Fowzer has shown the greatest of ability and fidelity to his company, and at the same time has made the railroad office an important medium for the transaction of business to the community. He is one of the genial and popular citizens of Manawa. He was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1859, a son of William and Sarah (Boyd) Fowzer. His father was a native of Scotland, while his mother was born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The home of William Fowzer the greater part of his life was at Pittsburg, and he followed the business of contracting. He and his wife were good Presbyterians. Their children were named William, Robert, Charles, James, Anna, Sarah and Ellen. Mr. J. D. Fowzer acquired part of his early education in the schools of Butler, Pennsylvania, and he also attended school in Pittsburg. As a young man he served an apprenticeship and was employed in the car shops at Pittsburg, but in 1883 went into the railroad service, at first in the State of Nebraska. In 1884 he came to Manawa, and since that year has been connected with the Green Bay & Western Railroad. On July 2, 1886, he married Miss Ella Closnit. They have one son, L. L. Fowzer, who lives at Manawa and married Grace Story. Mr. Fowzer is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Outside of the duties which have employed him for so many years in the railway station at Manawa he has served a term on the village council and one term on the school board. Politically he maintains an independent attitude.
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James married Closuit, Ella on 2 Jul 1887 in Wood, Wisconsin, USA. Ella was born in 1869 in Wisconsin, USA; died in 1947 in Manawa, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA; was buried in 1947 in Little Wolf Cemetery, Manawa, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: G92D-BRF
• Residence: 1920, Manawa, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA

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• FSID: G926-9BZ
• Residence: 1905, Manawa, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA
• Military: Between 1917 and 1918, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA
• Military: 1 Aug 1919, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence: 1920, Manawa, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence: 1930, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence: 1935, Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence: 1940, Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

Family/Spouse: Fowzer, Mary P. Mary was born in 1899 in Indiana, USA; died in 1996 in Manawa, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA; was buried in 1986 in Little Wolf Cemetery, Manawa, Waupaca, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: GQ16-4B2
• Residence: 1930, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence: 1935, Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence: 1940, Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA