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Permanent LinkSenator Joseph Andrew Fitchpatrick View All Years
JOSEPH A. FITCHPATRICK was born near Abingdon, Virginia, October 17, 1840, and died at Nevada, Iowa, February 6, 1922. His parents were William H. and Sarah V. (Hagy) Fitchpatrick. He was with his parents in their removal to Clinton County, Indiana, in 1843, to Boone County, Iowa, in 1854, and to Story County in 1857. He attended country schools and “kept” school a few terms from 1859 to 1861. He enlisted May 21, 1863, in Company E, Third Iowa Infantry, was taken prisoner at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and again at Atlanta, July 22, 1863, re-enlisted in the Second and Third Veteran Infantry Consolidated, December 17, 1863, as fifth corporal, promoted to fourth corporal May 1, 1865, to third corporal June 28, 1865, and was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, July 12, 1865. He was elected clerk of court of Story County to fill a vacancy in October, 1865, and by reason of re-elections served until 1877. He engaged in the abstract and loan business, and followed that through most of his active career. He was also admitted to the bar and acted as a consulting lawyer. He was president of the First National Bank of Nevada. In 1899 he was elected senator and served in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth general assemblies. He was again elected senator in 1908 and served in the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth assemblies.