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Lorenzo Erasmus Fish

Birth	:	21 Jan 1837 Shutesbury, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
Death	:	26 Sep 1902
Burial	:	Iowa Veterans Home Cemetery, Marshalltown, Marshall County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.0528620, -92.9344550
Plot	:	Section C, Row 13, Grave 14
Inscription	:	ARTIF'R L.E. FISH CO. G. 1 N.Y. ENGR'S.
Description	:	(Source: Rock Island County Biographical Record, 1885) Lorenzo E. Fish has been a member of the Board of Education of Moline, 111., since the year 1883, and since the commencement of the year 1885 has been serving his second term as its Secretary. His first identity with the educational institutions of this place was as Janitor of the Public Schools, a position he held for six years. That his progress, step by step, from the humblest walks of life into positions of trust and honor has been the result of individual merit upon his own part, will be seen by a perusal of this... Read More	(Source: Rock Island County Biographical Record, 1885) Lorenzo E. Fish has been a member of the Board of Education of Moline, 111., since the year 1883, and since the commencement of the year 1885 has been serving his second term as its Secretary. His first identity with the educational institutions of this place was as Janitor of the Public Schools, a position he held for six years. That his progress, step by step, from the humblest walks of life into positions of trust and honor has been the result of individual merit upon his own part, will be seen by a perusal of this brief history of his life. Mr. Fish, eldest son in a family of seven children of Rev. Erasmus D. and Cynthia (Russell) Fish, of Massachusetts, was born in Franklin County, that State, Jan. 21, 1837. His paternal grandfather was in the Revolutionary War; and a brother, Rev. R. D. Fish, was a soldier in the war for the Union and was taken prisoner at Vicksburg. His father would have been a soldier, as he was a very patriotic and public-spirited man, but his health would not permit. At the schools of his native place, Lorenzo acquired the rudiments of an English education, which was supplemented by a course at a commercial college. At the age of 22, he accepted employment in a minor official capacity in a reformatory school in New York city, a position he held at the outbreak of the American Rebellion. Dec. 6, 1861, he enrolled in the First N. Y. Vol. Eng'rs and went immediately to the front. His first furlough was dated in 1863, and indorsed in red ink, "Complimentary on account of good conduct in the field." In February, 1864, he veteranized, and soon afterward took his second furlough home. It was a long distance from Jacksonville, Fla., to Rowe, Mass., but as the records disclose that Lorenzo E. Fish was married at the latter place, April 6, 1864, to Miss Lucy A. Starr, it may be reasonably presumed that a very good line of communication had been established between the two points, and also that the " Veteran " had not allowed much grass to grow under his feet. In June, 1864, he was appointed a Hospital Steward of the United States Army and afterwards was assigned to the 32d United States (colored) Infantry. A year later he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, with which rank he was mustered out at Philadelphia, Aug. 29, 1865. He brought his family to Moline in November, 1867, and here he has since resided. He has served the city eight years as Constable, and four years as Marshal. Was President of the Board of Associated Charities of Moline, in 1884, and in 1885 is their Secretary and manager. He is a Deacon and Treasurer of the Baptist Church (to which his wife and two daughters also belong), and is Superintendent of the Sunday-school, member of the Baptist State Board of Missions, and State Sabbath-school Executive Committee. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. ; the Modern Woodmen of America, of which he is a member of the head finance committee; and he is also Adjutant of Graham Post, No. 312, G. A. R. Mr. Fish is at present engaged in the fire, life and accident insurance business in Rock Island County; office in Moline. Eudora, his daughter, now 18 years old, assists him in his office. The names of his children are, Eudora, Darwin S., Christina, Richard E., Herbert C, Lorenzo E., and Cynthia L., who died in infancy. As Mr. Fish has exerted a good influence and a liberal beneficence through so many and varied channels, and has thus done far more good by his "right hand" than his "left hand" knows anything of, it is no more than fit and proper that a portrait of his facial features should accompany the foregoing brief biographical outline.

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Lorenzo Erasmus Fish's memorial is located at: Iowa Veterans Home Cemetery, Marshalltown, Marshall County, USA.
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Latitude: 42.0528620
Longitude: -92.9344550

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Lorenzo Ezra Fish

(1877 - 1956)

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