He was a son of Jacob Fridley and Nancy Ann Hite Fridley.
H. H. FRIDLEY, farmer. Sec. 10; P.O. Fairport; was born in Augusta Co., Va., Dec. 4, 1818; removed, with his parents, to Ohio while he was quite young; settled in Ross Co., near Chillicothe, remaining there until 1843; then came to Iowa; located in Muscatine Co., on the farm on which he has since resided. On Oct. 11, 1838, he married Miss Mary Calhoun, at Chillicothe, Ohio; she was a native of North Carolina. Mr. Fridley has held several offices in the county, and has also been engaged in some of the important enterprises of the country. He sunk the first coal shaft and opened the first coal mine in the county. Mr. Fridley is a very enterprising and public-spirited man; was an Old Line Whig, afterward a Republican. Mr. Fridley's parents both died in Iowa - his father in 1853, and his mother in 1845.
[From: Muscatine newspaper, no date.]
H. H. FRIDLEY, farmer. Sec. 10; P.O. Fairport; was born in Augusta Co., Va., Dec. 4, 1818; removed, with his parents, to Ohio while he was quite young; settled in Ross Co., near Chillicothe, remaining there until 1843; then came to Iowa; located in Muscatine Co., on the farm on which he has since resided. On Oct. 11, 1838, he married Miss Mary Calhoun, at Chillicothe, Ohio; she was a native of North Carolina. Mr. Fridley has held several offices in the county, and has also been engaged in some of the important enterprises of the country. He sunk the first coal shaft and opened the first coal mine in the county. Mr. Fridley is a very enterprising and public-spirited man; was an Old Line Whig, afterward a Republican. Mr. Fridley's parents both died in Iowa - his father in 1853, and his mother in 1845.
[From: Muscatine newspaper, no date.]
He was a son of Jacob Fridley and Nancy Ann Hite Fridley.
H. H. FRIDLEY, farmer. Sec. 10; P.O. Fairport; was born in Augusta Co., Va., Dec. 4, 1818; removed, with his parents, to Ohio while he was quite young; settled in Ross Co., near Chillicothe, remaining there until 1843; then came to Iowa; located in Muscatine Co., on the farm on which he has since resided. On Oct. 11, 1838, he married Miss Mary Calhoun, at Chillicothe, Ohio; she was a native of North Carolina. Mr. Fridley has held several offices in the county, and has also been engaged in some of the important enterprises of the country. He sunk the first coal shaft and opened the first coal mine in the county. Mr. Fridley is a very enterprising and public-spirited man; was an Old Line Whig, afterward a Republican. Mr. Fridley's parents both died in Iowa - his father in 1853, and his mother in 1845.
[From: Muscatine newspaper, no date.]
H. H. FRIDLEY, farmer. Sec. 10; P.O. Fairport; was born in Augusta Co., Va., Dec. 4, 1818; removed, with his parents, to Ohio while he was quite young; settled in Ross Co., near Chillicothe, remaining there until 1843; then came to Iowa; located in Muscatine Co., on the farm on which he has since resided. On Oct. 11, 1838, he married Miss Mary Calhoun, at Chillicothe, Ohio; she was a native of North Carolina. Mr. Fridley has held several offices in the county, and has also been engaged in some of the important enterprises of the country. He sunk the first coal shaft and opened the first coal mine in the county. Mr. Fridley is a very enterprising and public-spirited man; was an Old Line Whig, afterward a Republican. Mr. Fridley's parents both died in Iowa - his father in 1853, and his mother in 1845.
[From: Muscatine newspaper, no date.]
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