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Peter Fagg (January 14, 1837 - December 10, 1917〔) was an American law enforcement officer, retail clerk, debt collector, temperance lecturer, colporteur, and politician from Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin who served a single term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly's 2nd Milwaukee County district (the 2nd Ward of the City of Milwaukee). He was a member of the Reform Party, a short-lived coalition of Democrats, reform and Liberal Republicans, and Grangers formed in 1873 in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, which had secured the election for two years of William Robert Taylor as Governor of Wisconsin,〔(William Robert Taylor, Wisconsin Historical Society )〕 as well as electing a number of state legislators, but failed to thrive. == Background == Fagg was born as Pieter Fagg in Vlissingen in the Kingdom of the Netherlands on January 14, 1837, son of Captain Johannes Gerardus Fagg (Zierikzee, 1904, son of John Fagg and Jacoba Johanna van der Tollen), who came of Scotch and English ancestors and Sara Jacoba Smith. The captain was a ship owner, sailor, and merchnt who owned a large grocery business in Vlissengen. His mother, Sarah Jacoba Smith, was a Vlissingen native from a prominent local family of English and Dutch ancestry and of a prominent family of the place. Captain Fagg never learned the Dutch language, speaking only English. John Fagg died at the age of 34, and for two years his mother managed the business. She again married on March 5, 1841,〔(Database genealogie Planje, Planjer, Planije, Zetteler en aanverwanten ), Genealogical database, in Dutch.〕 this time to Frederick T. Zetteler, a son of the royal tailor. A few years after Sarah's second marriage and after the second bankruptcy of her husband the whole family came to the United States, taking passage at Antwerp on a sailing ship that landed them at New York City. They proceeded to Albany, New York and thence by canals and the Great Lakes to Milwaukee, landing July 3, 1848, and there they settled down on a farm. In 1853 Zetteler moved the family to Madison and opened a general store. The mother and children ran the store and the father worked for official offices of the State, including the Secretary of State of Wisconsin and the State Register of Deeds, and Peter worked in the office of former Governor Leonard J. Farwell. In 1858, a fire destroyed all of the family's property, and Zetteler returned to Milwaukee and went into the real estate business. Peter married Fyistke Fillma (called "Mary") on May 3, 1859.〔(Marriage certificate, Peter Fagg and Fyistke Fillma; Milwaukee County records )〕 They moved to Alto in Fond du Lac County in 1861, where he worked as a retail clerk in a general store. Fagg was elected a justice of the peace in Alto, and county supervisor for the same place, in 1862, and re-elected. In 1863 his stepfather was elected (as a Democrat) to the State Assembly back in Milwaukee. Fagg was appointed as a prison guard in the Wisconsin State Prison in 1865; then returned to Milwaukee in 1867, where he was appointed a police officer under Chief William Beck. He became a deputy sheriff under Sheriffs Parsons and McDonald, and resigned in October, 1873. He worked as a notary public and debt collector. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Fagg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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