Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 605
WILLIAM G. FISHER

William G. FISHER, who resides on section 3, of Jackson Township, has bee a resident of the county twenty-one years, coming as he did in the spring of 1870. He commenced at the bottom round of the ladder, and rented land the first two years of William ARTHUR. He then bought fifty acres of land he now occupies, which was wild land at the time. Here he built a story and a half house, 14x18 feet, to which he has since added an apartment, 22x28 feet. Also constructed a barn, 20x40 feet. His farm now comprises three hundred acres, seventy-five acres of which has felt the keen edge of his plowshare, while the remainder is in meadow and pasture land. He is amply provided with fruit from his apple orchard, which contains seventy-five trees. The grounds about his farm-house are beautified and made attractive by various varieties of shade trees. He has a bank cellar costing him $60.

Clermont County, Ohio, in the land of the "Buckeyes," was the birthplace of our subject. The date of his birth was April, 1846. His parents were David Y. and Delia FISHER, natives of Ohio, who had a family of thirteen children names as follows: Nancy J., Leonidas, Caroline H., William E., Hamilton B., Mary E., deceased, David N., Martha E., Catherine A., Anna; Susan, Maria and Truman are deceased.

Our subject remained under the paternal roof until thirteen years of age when he enlisted at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Naval Department, under Capt. ROGERS with Admiral FARRAGUT. Was in the service nineteen months and was in the naval engagement at Mobile, Ala., where their vessel was lost. Our subject was wounded and sent to the hospital, at Pensacola, Fla., where he remained one month and then went back and served his country, as one of those who manned the "Meteor" and later the "Fear-naught," and was discharged from the service July, 1866, at New York City, and spent the next four years farming in Ohio, then coming to Harrison County. The vessel upon which our subject was wounded was blown up by a torpedo, fired by the rebels, killing nine men outright.

After our subject had served his country as a brave soldier, as one of the marines, and peace had perched upon our banners, he saw many of his comrades enjoying the comforts of a home, so he sought the hand and heart of Elizabeth ABRAMS, to whom he was united in marriage in the month of February, 1870. She is the daughter of George and Rachel ABRAMS, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Ohio, who reared the following children: Louisa, Louis, Elizabeth, Isaphena, Vilena, Marcellus, Transylvania and John.

Our subject and his wife have their home circle made cheerful by four intelligent children--William A., born July 23, 1871; George W., September 17, 1873; David, September 28, 1875; and Frank, January 5, 1877.

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