George Fisher

FISHER, CONNELLY, JENKINS, PERCIVAL, FALLS, MARSH, COX

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Date: 2/24/2002 at 20:02:38

George Fisher is a native of Novia (sic) Scotia, born on the 12th day of August, 1823. His father, John P. Fisher, was also a native of the Province; but his mother, Agnes (Connelly) Fisher, was born in the State of Pennsylvania. He learned the carpenter’s trade, and followed the same near the place of his nativity until 1847, when he came to the United States, and for eleven years was engaged in repairing the machinery of cotton mills in the States of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In 1858 he commenced his present vocation, and he is therefore one of the few artists whose experience dates back to the days of daguerreotypes.
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In 1862 Mr. Fisher enlisted in Company F of the Seventh Rhode Island Volunteers, and was wounded at the battle of Fredricksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862, and was therefore on the 27th day of March, 1863, honorably discharged. He then emigrated to Minnesota, and for two years resumed work at his trade. In 1865 he came to Iowa, and has since been engaged in his present business, being first located at Waterloo, subsequently at Vinton before coming to Clarksville.
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Mr. Fisher has been thrice married. In 1844 to Miss Mary A. Jenkins. She died in 1858, leaving four children – Robert, Isabelle, Agnes and Jessie. In 1859 he married Mrs. Mary Percival nee Falls. She died January 2, 1865, and in June, 1871 he married Mrs. Harriet M. Marsh nee Cox, and by this union has one daughter – Lillian.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 532