ID: ind00512
Name: John Giles FONDA
Given Name: John Giles
Surname: Fonda
Sex: M
Birth: 08 MAR 1822 1
Baptism: 2
Death: 10 DEC 1910
Age: 88y 9m 2d 3
Event:
Funeral 4 5
Residence:
Note: b. Sand Flats, Montgomery Co., NY; bp. Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, Fonda, Montgomery Co., NY; moved in 1835 to Warsaw, Hancock Co., IL; 1850 & 1860 US Federal Census, Warsaw, Hancock Co., IL; 1855 Illinois State Census (John G Fonda, Warsaw, Hancock Co., IL, male 10-20: 1, male 40-50: 1, female 0-10: 1, female 20-30: 1); 1870 US Federal Census, Fountain View, Hancock Co., IL; 1870 US Federal Census, Humboldt, Allen Co., KS (J. G. Fonda, b. VT, Carpenter); 1880 US Federal Census, Quincy, Adams, IL (Gen Fonda, Wd, b. MA, Civil Engineer); 1885 Kansas State Census (J G Fonda, 63, Civil Engineer, Kinsley, Edwards Co., KS); 1885 Kansas State Census (J H Fonda (J G Fonda), 63, Civil Engineer, Dodge, Ford Co., KS, b. NY, Where from to KS: IL); 1895 Kansas State Census (John G Fonda, 72, Pleasant Valley, Ford Co., KS, b. NY); 1900 US Federal Census, National City, San Diego Co., CA; d. Los Angeles, CA; cremated at Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles and a cenotaph resides in Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, CA (the marker has not been located); o. Surveyor, Civil Engineer, Mayor of Warsaw, Illinois; Illinois State House of Representatives (1867 - J. G. Fonda, Fountain Green); Served in the Mexican War, 1847-48, at Perote, Mexico, under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as 2LT, Staff's Cavalry Company; [US Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 - Name: John G Fonda; Congr. Dist.: 4th; Res.: Hancock, IL; Race: White; Class: 3; Est. Birth: 1820; Marital Status: Married]; [Civil War Service: John Giles Fonda; Warsaw, Illinois; enlisted as a Lieutenant 1st Class on 24-Aug-1861 at the age of 39; commission in Co.G, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Illinois on 24-Aug-1861; resigned Co.G, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Illinois on 27-Dec-1861; promoted to MAJ on 08-Mar-1862 (as of 12th IL Cav); commission in Co.S, 12th Cavalry Regiment Illinois on 08-Mar-1862; promoted to LT COL on 17-Nov-1862 effective 20-Nov-1862 (as of IL 118th Inf); discharged for promotion Co.S, 12th Cavalry Regiment Illinois on 17-Nov-1862; commission in Co.S, 118th Infantry Regiment Illinois on 20-Nov-1862; promoted to COL on 29-Nov-1862 effective 29-Nov-1862; promoted to BGen on 27-Jun-1865; mustered out Co.S, 118th Infantry Regiment IL on 01-Oct-1865 in Baton Rouge, LA (118th Regiment organized at Camp Butler in Sep-1862. Dispatched to Memphis and Milliken Bend. In all engagements from Grand Gulf to Jackson and thence to Vicksburg. In expedition to lower Mississippi. Mustered out October 1, 1865)]; Surveyor 1889 Meade Co., KS; Civil War Pension, Kansas; SAR Member KS#00001 (joined 1893 in Topeka, Kansas); cited in "Civil War High Commands" by John H. Eicher; [R045] Civil War High Commands; [R117a] A Dictionary of All Officers Who Have Been Commissioned, Or Have Been Appointed and Served, in the Army of the United States, 1789-1853; [R017h] History of Hancock County, Illinois; [R034] The Compendium of American Genealogy; [R044] Innes Getty Collection: Jellis Douwse Fonda; [Illinois Public Land Purchase Records Name: Fonda John G, Section: Lots14SESW, 13SWSW, 12NWSW, 11NESW, Price: 125, Total: 20000, Date: 26 July 1850, Volume: 819, Page: 125, Acres: 4000 ea.]; [New York, 1820-1850 Passenger and Immigration Lists - Name: John Fonda, Arrival Date: Apr 30, 1850, Age: 32, Gender: M, Port of Departure: St. Juan de Paragra, Last Residence: United States of America, Ship Name: Rawson]; [New Orleans, 1820-1850 Passenger and Immigration Lists - Name: J. Fonda, Arrival Date: Mar 30, 1839, Age: 23, Gender: M, Port of Departure: Galveston, Last Residence: United States of America, Ship Name: Columbia]; [Biography in History of Hancock County, Illinois (1880) - John G. Fonda was born on the Mohawk river, in Montgomery County, New York, March 8, 1822. His parents were Giles Fonda and Maria, nee Dockstader. The Fonda family are of Low Dutch descent and the Dockstader, of German. The subject of this sketch came to Hancock county with his parents in 1835, and has regarded this as his home most of the time since. In 1840 he commenced the practice of surveying with J. Wilson Williams, and the greater portion of his life has been spent as a surveyor and civil engineer, in which profession he is engaged at the present time. From 1841 to 1843 he acted as Deputy County Surveyor under J. Wilson Williams. In 1844, in company with Alanson Lyon, he visited the island of Cuba CUB. In 1847 he enlisted as a private in Capt. Stapp's company of Illinois Mounted Volunteers, and went to Mexico; did service between Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico. At the close of the war, the following year, he was discharged as a Lieutenant. In 1849 he was married to Mary McConnell, and the same year was elected County Surveyor, and settled in Carthage; lived there until 1854, when he moved to Warsaw and was appointed an assistant engineer on the Warsaw & Rockford Railroad. In 1860 he spent the summer in Colorado and New Mexico. In July, 1861, he entered the United States Volunteer Service as a Lieutenant in Capt. B. F. Marsh's Company of 2d Illinois Cavalry. In January, 1862, he was appointed Major of the 12th Illinois Cavalry, and soon after placed in command of Camp Butler, near Springfield. In October he was made Colonel of the 118th Vol. Inf., and in December went with his regiment to Louisiana, where he served most of the time in command of a brigade until the close of the war. With his regiment he participated in all the battles about Vicksburg. After the fall of Vicksburg he had command of a cavalry brigade, and was breveted Brigadier-General. After the close of the war, in 1866, he settled on a farm near Fountain Green, and lives there yet. In July, 1877, he was appointed a Commissioner of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary, and still holds the position. In September, 1879, he was appointed Chief Engineer to construct levees between Warsaw and Quincy, to protect the low lands from overflow. This work is still in progress. http://www.us.archive.org/GnuBook/?id=historyofhancock00greg#828] >> www.fonda.org <<
Father: Giles Hanson FONDA b: 13 JUN 1789
Mother: Maria Bauer DOCKSTADER b: 09 JAN 1791
Marriage 1
Mary MCCONNELL b: 22 SEP 1826
- Married:
10 DEC 1849
Religious Marriage
- Note: m. Hancock Co., IL
Children
 Julia FONDA b: 1855 Frank John FONDA b: 03 MAY 1857- Mary Ellen FONDA b: 10 JAN 1859
Marriage 2
Kate Rebecca FREEMORE b: MAY 1850
- Married:
16 AUG 1882
Religious Marriage
- Note: m. Hannibal, Marion, MO
Sources:
- Title: Civil War High Commands
Military
Publication: Stanford, CA
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Date: 2001
Issue: M6
Edition: pp.238,636,662,745,821
Author: Eicher, John H.
Note:
WarCivilCommands
- Title: A Dictionary of All Officers Who Have Been Commissioned, or Have Been Appointed and Served, in the Army of the United States, 1789-1853
Volunteers and Militia of the States, Navy and Marine Corps
Military
Publication: New York, NY
Publisher: G.P. Putnam and Co.
Publication Date: 1853
Issue: M12
Author: Gardner, Charles K.
Note:
War1812Officers
- Title: The Compendium of American Genealogy
The Standard Genealogical Encyclopedia of the First Families of America (1600s-1800s)
Compendium
Publication: Baltimore, MD
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 1968
Issue: C10
Author: Virkus, Frederick Adam
Note:
CompAmerFirstFam
- Title: Innes Getty Collection: Jellis Douwse Fonda
Fonda Family
Publication: New York, NY
Publisher: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Publication Date: 1957
Issue: F12
Note:
FondaJellis
- Title: History of Hancock County, Illinois
together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws (1880)
Geographic
Publication: Chicago, IL
Publisher: C. C. Chapman
Publication Date: 1880
Issue: G8a
Edition: 1036 pgs.
Media: Website / URL
Author: Gregg, Thomas
Note:
GeoILCoHancock
Page: pp. 829-830
Note: GeoILCoHancock
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