Biography

11/03/1831 - 08/25/1893

FETTERS, Levi,  a Representative from Chester County; born, November 3, 1831 in East Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pa.; attended, Howard Academy, Chester County; first lieutenant, 21st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862, Civil War); captain, Company C, 175th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862-1863, Civil War); infantry instructor for United States Colored Troops, Philadelphia (1863, Civil War); farmer; teacher; ticket and freight agent, Pennsylvania Railroad; agent, Adams Express Company; dry goods and grocery merchant; director, Phoenixville Fire Insurance Company; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Barneston; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives a Republican in 1882 and 1884; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1886); died, August 24, 1893 in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Fairview Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glenmoore, Chester County, Pennsylvania.