Biographical Sketch of

Henry Gethers

Transcribed by Sandy Boudrou

Source: Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography of Citizens of Columbia, 
Sauk and Adams Counties, Wisconsin, published 1901 by G. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1901, Pages 438 - 439
 
Henry Gethers, a practical and enterprising agriculturist of Richfield township, Adams county, owns and operates a 
well-improved and highly cultivated farm of one hundred and eighty-nine acres on section 12.  He is a native of 
Pennsylvania, born in Venango county, July 12, 1836, and is a son of Henry and Betsy E. (Slepy) Gethers.  The father 
died when our subject was a small boy, and the mother married again, her second husband being John Hopper, who brought 
the family to Adams county, Wisconsin in 1849, and after buying and selling several farms, he finally located at what 
is now Coloma Corners, where he owned several hundred acres of land.
 
Mr. Gethers accompanied the family on their removal to Wisconsin and in Adams county he grew to manhood, early becoming 
familiar with the arduous duties which fall to the lot of the pioneer farmer.  He is now the owner of a good farm of 
one hundred and eighty-nine acres, of which eighty-five acres are under cultivation, and has erected thereon a good 
substantial residence, it being the second house built upon the place.  He is an enterprising and progressive 
agriculturist, and is meeting with fair success in his labors.
 
On the 17th of September, 1865, Mr. Gethers married Miss Esther Ann Parks, of Richfield township, Adams county, a 
daughter of William and Mary (Meade) Parks, of Waushara county, Wisconsin.  Her father enlisted at Richford, during 
the Civil war, in Company E, Sixteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and was wounded in the head at the battle of 
Shiloh.  When last seen he had started for the creek to wash the blood from his face, after which all trace of him was 
lost.  Our subject and his wife have a family of six children living, namely:  Charles, Malona J., John William, Mary 
E., Henry and Roy S.
 
Mr. Gethers was also among the boys in blue during the Rebellion, a member of Company E, Seventh Wisconsin Volunteer 
Infantry, which was a part of the "Iron Brigade."  He was the first to enlist at Coloma Corners, and he participated in 
the battles of Fredericksburg, Gainesville, the second battle of Bull Run, and the engagement at South Mountain where 
he was wounded in the left shoulder.  He was sent to Queen Street Newnet University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, from 
which he was honorably discharged on account of disability December 17, 1862.  His residence in Adams county, covering 
a period of over half a century, has numbered him among its valued citizens who have been devoted to the public welfare.  
He has manifested the same loyalty in days of peace as in days of war, and all who know him have for him the highest 
regard.
     

Transcribed by Sandy Boudrou






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