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FIELDING GAAR (1827-1900)
After a successful business career, in which he has acquired a handsome competence, Fielding Gaar is now living a retired life in Richmond. He was born in the city which is still his home, on the 1st of January, 1827, his parents being Jonas and Sarah ("Watson) Gaar. His  boyhood days were spent under the
parental roof, and in the subscription school he obtained his education. Early
trained to habits of industry, he served a regular apprenticeship to the
machinist's trade, under the direction of his father, completing his term on
attaining his majority. Throughout the remainder of his active business career,
he was employed along that line. He is still a stockholder in the factory of
Gaar, Scott & Company, and held a similar connection with the predecessor of
this company, A. Gaar & Company. A mammoth business is conducted by this
factory, and its extensive sales have brought to the stockholders a most
desirable income. Their trade, in the sale of the boilers, sawmills, threshing
machines and portable and traction engines which they construct, extends not
only throughout this country but to foreign lands as well, and brings to the
owners marked prosperity. Fielding Gaar is also the owner of a valuable farm of
one hundred and sixty acres, south of Richmond.In his political views he is a Democrat and formerly took quite an active part in advancing the interests of the Democracy, but is not aggressively partisan. At one time he represented the second ward in the city council and gave his support to all progressive measures for the public good. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the Knights Templar degree, holding membership in the commandery of Richmond. For thirty five year he has been connected with Whittier Lodge, No. 41, I. O. O. F., and is held in high esteem by the brethren of the fraternity. Mr. Gaar was married in Richmond, in 1865, to Miss Mary J. Gallagher, and four children have been born of this union, namely: Jonas, of Richmond, who is a member of the firm of Pogue, Miller & Company; Charles, a machinist with Gaar, Scott & Company; Indiana, wife of Harry Gilbert, of Richmond; and Earl, who is eighteen years of age, and is with his parents. Mr. Gaar is now resting in the enjoyment of the fruits of his former toil. He has reached the age of three-score years and ten, and now, on the western slope of life, he is resting from arduous cares, in the midst of family and friends, who esteem him for his honorable record and his many commendable characteristics |
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