Henry Fetter    

HENRY FETTER was another carpenter-contractor of early times. Born in Germany he came to this country when six years old and to New Brighton in 1837. While learning his trade he erected from lumber, planed by hand, the residence in which he lived and died, at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Eleventh Street in 1839-41. A newspaper advertisement appearing in March, 1855, informs us that T. O. Waddle, H. Fetter, and C. R. Waddle, as Waddle, Fetter & Co., have leased the lower story of the sash factory building of G. M. Stewart for planing mill purposes. The mill was on the Canal opposite the Merrick House. In the same year he built the Kenwood School for Boys, now part of the Beaver Valley Hospital. In 1857, he constructed the Huron House and about the same time a large cotton mill in Old Brighton, as well as many private dwellings. He was a Presbyterian, a member of the Pennsylvania militia in the War between the States, and a public spirited citizen. His children were William H. and Mrs. J. W. Ebaugh, deceased, Louis, Rebecca Wilson and Minetta Walsh. He died in December, 1912, at the age of ninety-four years.

History of New Brighton 1838-1939, published by the Historical Committee of the Centennial, Butler, PA, page 29. More Beaver County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.