Andrew Fertig arrived with parents, Elizabeth Zecherel and Johan Fertig along with brother Cyrus M and sister Barbara from Germany about 1850.
In his early years with his family, lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
As a Civil War veteran, he was recruited in Paw Paw, Michigan and served three years with 70th Infantry Co. C New York Volunteers.
He was a Chicago police officer at the time of the Great Fire, an 1880 Alabama homesteader, and a Chicago carpenter through the latter 1880's. Father of ten children, husband to Rosa Sturm, he retired to the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died on November 26, 1911.
In his early years with his family, lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
As a Civil War veteran, he was recruited in Paw Paw, Michigan and served three years with 70th Infantry Co. C New York Volunteers.
He was a Chicago police officer at the time of the Great Fire, an 1880 Alabama homesteader, and a Chicago carpenter through the latter 1880's. Father of ten children, husband to Rosa Sturm, he retired to the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died on November 26, 1911.
Andrew Fertig arrived with parents, Elizabeth Zecherel and Johan Fertig along with brother Cyrus M and sister Barbara from Germany about 1850.
In his early years with his family, lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
As a Civil War veteran, he was recruited in Paw Paw, Michigan and served three years with 70th Infantry Co. C New York Volunteers.
He was a Chicago police officer at the time of the Great Fire, an 1880 Alabama homesteader, and a Chicago carpenter through the latter 1880's. Father of ten children, husband to Rosa Sturm, he retired to the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died on November 26, 1911.
In his early years with his family, lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
As a Civil War veteran, he was recruited in Paw Paw, Michigan and served three years with 70th Infantry Co. C New York Volunteers.
He was a Chicago police officer at the time of the Great Fire, an 1880 Alabama homesteader, and a Chicago carpenter through the latter 1880's. Father of ten children, husband to Rosa Sturm, he retired to the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died on November 26, 1911.
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