Levi Fetters
Levi Fetters | |
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Drawing of Fetters in an 1881 publication | |
| Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the Chester County district | |
| In office 1883–1886 | |
| Preceded by | John A. Reynolds, Theodore K. Stubbs, John T. Potts, William Wayne |
| Succeeded by | Lewis H. Evans, William W. McConnell, John W. Hickman, D. Smith Talbot |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 3, 1831 |
| Died | August 1893 (aged 61) |
| Resting place | Fairview Presbyterian Church Cemetery Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Spouse |
Mary King (m. 1869) |
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Levi Fetters (November 3, 1831 – August 1893) was an American politician from Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing Chester County from 1883 to 1886.
Fetters was the son of a commissioned officer, and the grandson of a war veteran of the American Revolutionary War. He worked as a teacher during the 1850s, but he left his teaching position for military service in the American Civil War. He served as the captain of a company in the 175th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, and as a professor in a Philadelphia-based military school for the United States Colored Troops. Following the war's end, he variously worked as a teacher, a merchant, an employee and representative for a railroad company and an insurance company, and as a bank director. He committed suicide by hanging on August 24 or 25, 1893, at his home in West Chester.