Philetus Fales

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Sketches of the alumni of Dartmouth college: from the first graduation in ...
By George Thomas Chapman
[Class of 1849]
"Philetus Fales, A. M. the son of Dea. Waterman and Sybil (Robbins) Fales, was born at Thomaston, Me, May 7, 1825. He soon went to Europe and amused himself with making a pedestrian tour with Daniel M'Farland, a classmate of the partial course ; returning, became a teacher in the Polytechnical Institute of Washington Univ. St Louis, Missouri; was residing at Manhattan, Kan. when last heard from."

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"Military record of the sons of Dartmouth in the Union Army and Navy, 1861-1865"
[Class of] 1849. Philetus Fales: Enlisted in April, 1861, in Des iMoines, la., in Captain Crocker's company. The company was organized too late to be mustered into three months' ser- vice, and was mustered, early in 1861, into the service for three years, at Keokuk, la., as Company D of the Second Iowa Infantry. Mr. Fales was with the regiment in its many chases after the rebel guerillas, in Missouri, in the Grand Flotilla of General Fremont from St. Louis to Bird's Point, and there in camp under Gen. U. S. Grant, in September, when he was discharged in order to take the superintend- ency of a State institution for the blind, in St. Louis, ]Mo.


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Fales, Philetus Born 1825 in Maine; Died 1907
Andreas - 607-8
Kansas Historical Society Index - 140
Western Home Journal - 1866 (1-11)
Ottawa City Directory: 1873-1887
GAR - Book I-27
1885 Atlas - Lincoln S-11
Franklin County Family File
Probate Court File - F-1552
Buried: Highland Cemetery
Census: 1870 Ottawa Ward 3 - 90; 1875 Ottawa city - 315

Cemetery Stone - Photo:
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Philetus married Abbie Smith Lewis. Abbie (daughter of David Lewis and Asenath Smith) was born on 18 Oct 1841; died on 3 Oct 1917; was buried in Ottawa, Franklin Co, Kansas, USA (Highland Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

1. Dr. Harry P. Fales was born on 31 Aug 1865 in Missouri, USA; died on 25 Oct 1896; was buried in Ottawa, Franklin Co, Kansas, USA (Highland Cemetery).
2. Maud Fales was born on 4 Sep 1867 in Ottawa, Franklin Co, Kansas, USA; died on 2 Sep 1958 in Avon, Hartford Co, Connecticut, USA.

Waterman married Sybil Robbins. [Group Sheet]