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Charles A. Fetzer
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CHARLES A. FETZER, one of Chicora's leading business men, conducting a haberdasher and general clothing store, is his father's successor, he having founded it many
years ago. Mr. Fetzer was born at Chicora, Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1872, and is a son of Gotleib Frederick and Harriet (Fleeger) Fetzer. Gotleib Frederick Fetzer, was born in Germany and was about eight years old when his parents brought him to America. They settled in Butler County, where both shortly afterward died and he spent his whole subsequent life in this county, almost the whole of his mature years being devoted to merchandising. He first was in partnership with H. L. Westerman for five years, when Mr. Fetzer withdrew for a time but later became again associated with Mr. Westerman, for a few more years. He then entered into partnership with John G. Myers and they conducted a mill and had farm and oil interests. Mr. Myers withdrew after some years but Mr. Fetzer operated the mill, with his other enterprises, until his death on August 28, 1907, at the age of sixty-nine years. He married Harriet Fleeger, who died in September, 1881, aged thirty-seven years. She was a daughter of Solomon Fleeger, one of the early settlers in this section. They had a family of seven children, namely: Emma (Hummell), Agatha (Herrick), Clara (Jacobs), Charles A., Albert J., William H. and Frank E. Mr. Fetzer was a man of many fine traits of character and he is remembered by his fellow citizens with feelings of respect and esteem. As one of the older business men of this place, he had much to do with its material development. Charles A. Fetzer attended the public schools at Chicora until he was fourteen years of age and then became a clerk in the Westerman store, where he continued for six years, going then in the same capacity to Pittsburg, two years later returning to his father's store, where he continued until the death of the latter, when he purchased the business and has devoted himself to its successful continuance. Mr. Fetzer married Mary Donahue, in 1898, who died in 1905, leaving four children: Charles J., Agatha, Gerald and Catherine. In January, 1908, Mr. Fetzer was married (second) to Miss Anna Hodges, of Pittsburg. He is a member of the English Lutheran Church at Chicora. He belongs to the order of Elks, No. 170, of Butler, and to the Protected Home Circle at Chicora. Source: 20th century history of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and respresentative citizens, McKee, James A., 1909, page 614-617. |
