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F W FEY, chief clerk of the loal freight department of the Cleveland,
Cincinatti, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad Company at Cleveland, was born in
this city April 24, 1844. His father, John F FEY, established the family
name in Cleveland. He came here from Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, where he was
born, and became a citizen of the Forest City in 1832. Many of his first
years here he spent in the employ of Ohio railroads, but lastly was engaged
in the coal business. He died in 1882, at seventy-three years of age. He
wife, whom he married in this city, was Miss Louisa HERRING, born in
Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1816, and died in Cleveland at the age of
sixty-three. Her father, Andrew HERRING, became a settler near Liverpool,
Ohio, in 1831, and was a tiller of the soil.
The first three children of John F. FEY died in infancy. The others in
order of birth were: Louisa; Fred W.; Amelia, wife of C. F. THOMPSON;
Theophilus, an insurance man; and W. E. FEY, bookkeeper for A. H. Stone &
Company.
Fred W. FEY attended the public schools of Cleveland until he was
seventeen years of age, when in response to a desire to become a railroad
man he sought and secured a position with the Cleveland, Columbus, &
Cincinatti Railroad as slipper on the receiving desk, and later on the city
receiving desk.
His service was interrupted about this time by enlistment in the Federal
Army, being assigned to Company G, Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
This company was raised for the 100-day service, and was stationed in Fort
Lincoln, Washington, District of Columbia, until discharged. In the spring
of 1864 Mr. FEY re-enlisted, for three years, in the One Hundred and
Sixty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and this regiment did duty in the
Shenandoah Valley, where Mr. FEY was forage master of his division, and no
doubt studiously set about arranging and executing plans for discovering and
bringing into view much bacon, corn meal and flour from blind cellars,
hollow trees, and from under brush piles in dense forest. On arriving at
Alexandria, Mr. FEY was appointed Provost MARSHALL's clerk, and so remained
until mustered out at Columbus in December, 1865.
He returned to Cleveland and resumed his old duties at his old desk, his
place having been held open for him. In 1865 he was made assistant bill
clerk, and in 1881 he became chief bill clerk. In 1889 he was made rate
clerk, serving till Spetember, 1893, when he succeeded to his current
position.
March 6, 1866, Mr. FEY married Henrietta, a daughter of D. G. H.
THOMSON, of Fremont, Ohio. Six daughters are a result of this union, viz.:
Millie, Anna, Emma, Julia, Florence, and Ida. The first four are high school
graduates; Julia is a teacher in the city schools; Anna is assistant cashier
of Burrows Brothers; and Emma is bookkeeper for G. H. Lytle.
The family are members of the English Lutheran Church.
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SOURCE; Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland
Ohio, Illustrated pub. 1894 by The Lewis Publishing Company pgs. 266-267
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