Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 364
JOHN H. FISCHER

John H. FISCHER, one of Harrison County's representative farmers came to this county, in March, 1883, and removed to his present farm on section 24, Jefferson Township, having purchased the same the fall before. He has two hundred and forty acres of well improved land, one hundred and thirty-five being under cultivation; twenty acres in timber, the balance in pasture and meadow.

Mr. FISCHER was born in Prussia, Germany, January 1, 1830, and is the son of Herman H. and Catherine (WILLMAN) FISCHER, who died in Germany before our subject sailed for America. He sailed for America in November, 1847, landing at New Orleans, January 1, 1848, and immediately went to Putnam County, Ill.; where for two years he worked at a hotel and on the canal one season, subsequently he rented a farm, operating the same for five years. He then came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and remained until coming to this county.

Our subject was married December 10, 1856, in Bureau County, Ill., to Mary NEIDERBROKER, a native of Prussia, who came to America with one sister in 1855; the mother died in Germany and the father came to Missouri in 1857. Our subject and his wife have reared a family of eight children�Fred H., Amelia, Charlie F., Edward W., Robert H., Matilda M., Albert H., Andrew A. F., all of whom are living.

Mr. FISCHER politically votes with the Republican party. Upon arriving in this country, he only possessed $21, and has accumulated a handsome competency, through his own energy and hard labor. At one time he worked as low as $6 per month, clothed himself and saved some money. The highest wages received per month was $12 and his washing, which was given him when working on the canal. This case but illustrates what an honest, painstaking, adopted citizen, coming to our shores from a foreign land, may accomplish under our peculiar form of Government.

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