F. William Fenner, "Baldwinsville, was born in Lysander on the old homestead June 11, 1847. His father, F. W. Fenner, was born in Pompey in the year 1811, a son of James L. Fenner, who came to Onondaga county from Rhode Island in 1800. He was a prominent millwright and real estate owner and in 1818 he came to Lysander and purchased the property where his descendants now reside. F. W. Fenner, son of James L., married Elinor Schenck, and was the father of six children, four of whom are now living; he died in the year 1876. F. William, son of F. W. Fenner, is one of the representative farmers of the town, also one of the founders of the Farmers Co-operative Insurance Co., holding the office of president since 1892. He is very much interested in politics, holding offices of trust in the town." Source: Bruce, Dwight H. (Ed.), Onondaga's Centennial. Boston History Co., 1896, Vol. II, Family Sketches, p. 102.
Baldwinsville, New York
The Gazette and Farmer's Journal
Thursday, May 1, 1913
Page 5, Columns 2 and 3
Frederick William Fenner, a life-long resident of the town of Lysander, died at his home April 25, 1913, at 11: 30 p. m.
Mr. Fenner was born June 11, 1847, in the town of Lysander, on the farm where he died, his parents, Frederick W. Fenner and Eleanor S. Schenck, having settled there in 1835. This farm is located near Mud Lake.
The Fenners were formerly from the town of Pompey.
He was a good man. He has been a useful man and he will be missed not only by his own family, but by those who knew him best and loved him most. His character was good, his friendship enduring. He made his impression by his earnest work. His counsel has always been for prudent and careful expenditures rather than for extravagance and recklessness, and whatever he has advocated has invariably commanded the respectful consideration of his fellows. He was a man of ideas rather than words. He was a man who did not make his way by a flourish or splurge, but rather by a quiet, forceful expression of character and strength.
Mr. Fenner has followed farming all his life.
In March, 1867, he was married to Eliza M. Day, also of the town of Lysander, who, with two children, survives him, Charles, who lives on the farm, and William Frederick jr., of No. 529 Tallman street, Syracuse; he also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Sarah M. Vedder and Miss Melissa Fenner, both of Carrollton, Ill.
Mr. Fenner has always been a staunch Republican and served the town of Lysander as supervisor in the years 1889 and 1900. He was regarded as one of the most useful and safe men in the Board.
He has always been a very active member of the Farmers' Co-Operative Fire Insurance Association of the towns of Clay, Camillus, Lysander and Van Buren, which was incorporated August 13, 1881. Nearly twenty years ago he succeeded Abel Toll as president and was the active head of the company until his health failed.
The funeral, conducted by the Rev. G. L. Ford, pastor of the First Baptist church of Baldwinsville, was held at his late home Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. Burial was made at Jacksonville cemetery, where Mr. Fenner's people are all buried.
He has been one of the trustees all his life and took great interest in the cemetery, which is second to none. A great many beautiful monuments are erected there.
The honorary bearers were De Forest Settle, George G. Cotton, Joseph Sherwood, F. L. Fisher, James W. Ward and T. C. Lewis. The active bearers were J. Sullivan Schenck, W. B. Schenck, James S. Schenck, Bert Bratt, George W. Simons and Fernando Gifford.
The services were conducted by Seneca River Lodge, No. 160, F. and A. M., of which Mr. Fenner was a member – initiated March 7, 1893, passed March 21, 1893, raised April 4, 1893. The work was given at the grave by L. O. Stearns in a very able and impressive manner.
About seventy-five Masons attended the funeral.
He was also a member of Chapter No. 160 at Baldwinsville and belonged to Charter Oak Lodge of Plainville, which has a membership of over 200.
Baldwinsville, New York
The Gazette and Farmer's Journal
Thursday, May 1, 1913
Page 5, Columns 2 and 3
Frederick William Fenner, a life-long resident of the town of Lysander, died at his home April 25, 1913, at 11: 30 p. m.
Mr. Fenner was born June 11, 1847, in the town of Lysander, on the farm where he died, his parents, Frederick W. Fenner and Eleanor S. Schenck, having settled there in 1835. This farm is located near Mud Lake.
The Fenners were formerly from the town of Pompey.
He was a good man. He has been a useful man and he will be missed not only by his own family, but by those who knew him best and loved him most. His character was good, his friendship enduring. He made his impression by his earnest work. His counsel has always been for prudent and careful expenditures rather than for extravagance and recklessness, and whatever he has advocated has invariably commanded the respectful consideration of his fellows. He was a man of ideas rather than words. He was a man who did not make his way by a flourish or splurge, but rather by a quiet, forceful expression of character and strength.
Mr. Fenner has followed farming all his life.
In March, 1867, he was married to Eliza M. Day, also of the town of Lysander, who, with two children, survives him, Charles, who lives on the farm, and William Frederick jr., of No. 529 Tallman street, Syracuse; he also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Sarah M. Vedder and Miss Melissa Fenner, both of Carrollton, Ill.
Mr. Fenner has always been a staunch Republican and served the town of Lysander as supervisor in the years 1889 and 1900. He was regarded as one of the most useful and safe men in the Board.
He has always been a very active member of the Farmers' Co-Operative Fire Insurance Association of the towns of Clay, Camillus, Lysander and Van Buren, which was incorporated August 13, 1881. Nearly twenty years ago he succeeded Abel Toll as president and was the active head of the company until his health failed.
The funeral, conducted by the Rev. G. L. Ford, pastor of the First Baptist church of Baldwinsville, was held at his late home Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. Burial was made at Jacksonville cemetery, where Mr. Fenner's people are all buried.
He has been one of the trustees all his life and took great interest in the cemetery, which is second to none. A great many beautiful monuments are erected there.
The honorary bearers were De Forest Settle, George G. Cotton, Joseph Sherwood, F. L. Fisher, James W. Ward and T. C. Lewis. The active bearers were J. Sullivan Schenck, W. B. Schenck, James S. Schenck, Bert Bratt, George W. Simons and Fernando Gifford.
The services were conducted by Seneca River Lodge, No. 160, F. and A. M., of which Mr. Fenner was a member – initiated March 7, 1893, passed March 21, 1893, raised April 4, 1893. The work was given at the grave by L. O. Stearns in a very able and impressive manner.
About seventy-five Masons attended the funeral.
He was also a member of Chapter No. 160 at Baldwinsville and belonged to Charter Oak Lodge of Plainville, which has a membership of over 200.
F. William Fenner, "Baldwinsville, was born in Lysander on the old homestead June 11, 1847. His father, F. W. Fenner, was born in Pompey in the year 1811, a son of James L. Fenner, who came to Onondaga county from Rhode Island in 1800. He was a prominent millwright and real estate owner and in 1818 he came to Lysander and purchased the property where his descendants now reside. F. W. Fenner, son of James L., married Elinor Schenck, and was the father of six children, four of whom are now living; he died in the year 1876. F. William, son of F. W. Fenner, is one of the representative farmers of the town, also one of the founders of the Farmers Co-operative Insurance Co., holding the office of president since 1892. He is very much interested in politics, holding offices of trust in the town." Source: Bruce, Dwight H. (Ed.), Onondaga's Centennial. Boston History Co., 1896, Vol. II, Family Sketches, p. 102.
Baldwinsville, New York
The Gazette and Farmer's Journal
Thursday, May 1, 1913
Page 5, Columns 2 and 3
Frederick William Fenner, a life-long resident of the town of Lysander, died at his home April 25, 1913, at 11: 30 p. m.
Mr. Fenner was born June 11, 1847, in the town of Lysander, on the farm where he died, his parents, Frederick W. Fenner and Eleanor S. Schenck, having settled there in 1835. This farm is located near Mud Lake.
The Fenners were formerly from the town of Pompey.
He was a good man. He has been a useful man and he will be missed not only by his own family, but by those who knew him best and loved him most. His character was good, his friendship enduring. He made his impression by his earnest work. His counsel has always been for prudent and careful expenditures rather than for extravagance and recklessness, and whatever he has advocated has invariably commanded the respectful consideration of his fellows. He was a man of ideas rather than words. He was a man who did not make his way by a flourish or splurge, but rather by a quiet, forceful expression of character and strength.
Mr. Fenner has followed farming all his life.
In March, 1867, he was married to Eliza M. Day, also of the town of Lysander, who, with two children, survives him, Charles, who lives on the farm, and William Frederick jr., of No. 529 Tallman street, Syracuse; he also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Sarah M. Vedder and Miss Melissa Fenner, both of Carrollton, Ill.
Mr. Fenner has always been a staunch Republican and served the town of Lysander as supervisor in the years 1889 and 1900. He was regarded as one of the most useful and safe men in the Board.
He has always been a very active member of the Farmers' Co-Operative Fire Insurance Association of the towns of Clay, Camillus, Lysander and Van Buren, which was incorporated August 13, 1881. Nearly twenty years ago he succeeded Abel Toll as president and was the active head of the company until his health failed.
The funeral, conducted by the Rev. G. L. Ford, pastor of the First Baptist church of Baldwinsville, was held at his late home Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. Burial was made at Jacksonville cemetery, where Mr. Fenner's people are all buried.
He has been one of the trustees all his life and took great interest in the cemetery, which is second to none. A great many beautiful monuments are erected there.
The honorary bearers were De Forest Settle, George G. Cotton, Joseph Sherwood, F. L. Fisher, James W. Ward and T. C. Lewis. The active bearers were J. Sullivan Schenck, W. B. Schenck, James S. Schenck, Bert Bratt, George W. Simons and Fernando Gifford.
The services were conducted by Seneca River Lodge, No. 160, F. and A. M., of which Mr. Fenner was a member – initiated March 7, 1893, passed March 21, 1893, raised April 4, 1893. The work was given at the grave by L. O. Stearns in a very able and impressive manner.
About seventy-five Masons attended the funeral.
He was also a member of Chapter No. 160 at Baldwinsville and belonged to Charter Oak Lodge of Plainville, which has a membership of over 200.
Baldwinsville, New York
The Gazette and Farmer's Journal
Thursday, May 1, 1913
Page 5, Columns 2 and 3
Frederick William Fenner, a life-long resident of the town of Lysander, died at his home April 25, 1913, at 11: 30 p. m.
Mr. Fenner was born June 11, 1847, in the town of Lysander, on the farm where he died, his parents, Frederick W. Fenner and Eleanor S. Schenck, having settled there in 1835. This farm is located near Mud Lake.
The Fenners were formerly from the town of Pompey.
He was a good man. He has been a useful man and he will be missed not only by his own family, but by those who knew him best and loved him most. His character was good, his friendship enduring. He made his impression by his earnest work. His counsel has always been for prudent and careful expenditures rather than for extravagance and recklessness, and whatever he has advocated has invariably commanded the respectful consideration of his fellows. He was a man of ideas rather than words. He was a man who did not make his way by a flourish or splurge, but rather by a quiet, forceful expression of character and strength.
Mr. Fenner has followed farming all his life.
In March, 1867, he was married to Eliza M. Day, also of the town of Lysander, who, with two children, survives him, Charles, who lives on the farm, and William Frederick jr., of No. 529 Tallman street, Syracuse; he also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Sarah M. Vedder and Miss Melissa Fenner, both of Carrollton, Ill.
Mr. Fenner has always been a staunch Republican and served the town of Lysander as supervisor in the years 1889 and 1900. He was regarded as one of the most useful and safe men in the Board.
He has always been a very active member of the Farmers' Co-Operative Fire Insurance Association of the towns of Clay, Camillus, Lysander and Van Buren, which was incorporated August 13, 1881. Nearly twenty years ago he succeeded Abel Toll as president and was the active head of the company until his health failed.
The funeral, conducted by the Rev. G. L. Ford, pastor of the First Baptist church of Baldwinsville, was held at his late home Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock. Burial was made at Jacksonville cemetery, where Mr. Fenner's people are all buried.
He has been one of the trustees all his life and took great interest in the cemetery, which is second to none. A great many beautiful monuments are erected there.
The honorary bearers were De Forest Settle, George G. Cotton, Joseph Sherwood, F. L. Fisher, James W. Ward and T. C. Lewis. The active bearers were J. Sullivan Schenck, W. B. Schenck, James S. Schenck, Bert Bratt, George W. Simons and Fernando Gifford.
The services were conducted by Seneca River Lodge, No. 160, F. and A. M., of which Mr. Fenner was a member – initiated March 7, 1893, passed March 21, 1893, raised April 4, 1893. The work was given at the grave by L. O. Stearns in a very able and impressive manner.
About seventy-five Masons attended the funeral.
He was also a member of Chapter No. 160 at Baldwinsville and belonged to Charter Oak Lodge of Plainville, which has a membership of over 200.
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