“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


NELSON FRYER,  farmer, Sec. 32;  P.O. Whitewater; born in 
Princeton, Schenectady Co., N.Y., Feb. 22, 1816; his younger days were 
spent in Amsterdam, N.Y., where he was educated; came to Whitewater, 
Wis., in 1842, and settled on his present farm of 200 acres in 1843; it 
was then mostly timber-land, and Mr. F. did his full share of pioneering.  
Elected County Treasurer in 1854.  He removed to Jefferson at the close 
of his official term; he went into business with a brother in Jefferson, but 
returned to his farm in 1858.  In politics, a stanch Democrat; he has been 
Chairman of the Town Board many years, also Town Clerk and 
Assessor, which office he now holds; is also County Coroner; Mr. Fryer 
was elected in 1870 to the Wisconsin Legislature; he was a County 
Commissioner in 1868.  He is one of the well-known and successful 
pioneers of Jefferson Co., and is closely identified with its early history.  
He has on his farm thorough-bred short-horn cattle of the Snowflake and 
Arabella Duke families, and is a breeder of Patchen horses and mixed 
Essex and Poland-China hogs.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)