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Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1899.
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REV. WILLIAM L. FISCHER.
Lives devoted to high ideals produce an effect far beyond
all outward indications, for throughout the intricate and
wide-spread ramifications of association the silent yet
potent influence of a Christian character exerts its
persuasive power. The work and influence of this well-known
clergyman, who has been for a number of years pastor of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church at Napoleon, Henry county, is an
acknowledged force for good, and it is most appropriate that
a record of his life should be preserved in this volume in
order that the descendants of those to whom he ministered so
faithfully may honor his name.
Mr. Fischer was born May 10. 1842, in Berleburg,
Westphalia, Prussia, a son of Christian and Eliza (Ritter)
Fischer. The father, who held a high public office, died in
that town in the fall of 1869, the mother not long
surviving, as her death occurred in Germany in the spring of
1874. Our subject was the sixth in a family of twelve
children. The first fourteen years of his life were spent in
his native town; he then entered Giesen Gymnasium, where he
was graduated in 1863, and in 1864 he came to America to
make his home, landing in Baltimore in the spring of that
year. After passing a few months in that city he went to
Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a private tutor until
1869. The year 1870 he spent in study in the
theological department of the Capitol University, at
Columbus, Ohio, and in 1872 he was ordained as a minister of
the Lutheran Church. His first charge was at Milan, Ripley
county, Indiana, but in 1876 he removed from that place to
Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, where he remained until
1880. He was then called to Fulton county, Ohio, where he
spent four years, and in 1884 he located at Napoleon. In
addition to the care of the congregation there he has charge
of the Churches in Freedom and Flat Rock townships, his
parish comprising in all two hundred and eighty-five
families, and his ministry has been notably successful.
On October 28, 1872, Reverend Fischer was married in
Columbus, Ohio, to Miss Mary Barth, who was born in that
city May 16, 1852. She passed to the unseen life February
22, 1877, during his residence in Missouri, and on August
28, 1878, he was married in Evansville, Indiana, to Miss
Caroline Eissler, a native of New York City, born September
19, 1857. By his first marriage he had two children:
Augusta, Lydia (who died in infancy). By his second union he
has had five children: Paul G., Martha L., Adolph H.,
Theodore W., and Oscar M.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1899. - Page 509 |
GEORGE W. FISHER. The
well-known postmaster of Holgate, Henry county, G. W.
Fisher, needs no special introduction to the readers of
this volume, but the work would be incomplete without the
record of his life. No man in the place has been more
prominently identified with its public affairs, or has taken
a more active part in its upbuilding and progress.
A native of Ohio, Mr. Fisher was born April 19,
1837, in Muskingum county, a son of Mathew and Susanna
(Mitchell) Fisher, natives of Pennsylvania, the former
born in Allegheny county. During pioneer days they emigrated
to Ohio, and the mother died in Patterson, Hardin county, in
April, 1876, the father in Holgate, on October 13, 1896. In
their family were twelve children—eight sons and four
daughters—our subject being sixth in the order of birth.
At the age of seventeen George W. Fisher accompanied
a family by the name of Whitaker on their removal to
Polk county, Iowa, where he was engaged in farming for three
years, and at the end of that time went to Decatur county,
that State, buying there a tract of land, which he operated
until the fall of 1862, when he returned to Ohio. Locating
near Patterson, in Hardin county, he there cleared and
cultivated a large farm, making it his home for eleven
years, and then removed to the village of Patterson; there
engaging in general merchandising for about eighteen months,
after which he successfully conducted a grocery store until
his place was destroyed by fire. This proved a very serious
loss to him, and he at once decided to leave Patterson. He
was next engaged in the hotel business in North Baltimore,
Ohio, for a few months, and at Deshler, Henry county, he
found employment as porter in a hotel for a short time.
Coming to Holgate in 1881, he clerked in a general store for
four years, and during that time was elected justice of the
peace, a position he is still creditably filling, and when
the present term is completed it will make a period of
fifteen years.
While a resident of Polk county, Iowa, Mr. Fisher
was
united in marriage with Miss Caroline Howey,
on December 21, 1857. She was born in Wyandot county, Ohio,
June 13, 1837, a daughter of John and
Saloma (Barnes) Howey. Mr. and Mrs.
Fisher have become the parents of twelve children,
namely: Mary D.; Laura; Calvin, who died in infancy;
Nora;
William S., who died in Holgate, February 18, 1888;
Ida; Delia L.; Burton A.; Nellie G.; Avice L.;
Harry and Lulu. Of this family the daughters have
all been industrious and dutiful. Mary (who was a
school teacher), Nora, Ida, and Avice
are married; Delia and Nellie are now teaching
in the Holgate schools; Laura, who was her father's
assistant in the postoffice during his term as postmaster,
is now clerk in the postoffice under the present postmaster
at Holgate, and occasionally clerks in the Holgate
Commercial Bank; and Lulu is attending school, with
the expectation of graduating this year (1898). Of the sons,
Burton A. enlisted in the recent war, in Company C,
Thirty-first Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and is now in camp
at Knoxville, Tennessee, and Harry is an all-round
busy boy, aiding his father in looking after his out-door
and office work.
Mr. Fisher always supports the Democratic
ticket, and is an earnest advocate of the principles of that
party. His fellow citizens, recognizing his worth and
ability, have elected him to a number of official positions,
including that of township assessor, in which he served for
nine consecutive years. He has also been a member of the
school board and town council, and December 16, 1893, was
appointed postmaster of Holgate, assuming the duties of the
office February 1, 1894. He has ever proved a popular and
trustworthy official, leaving office as he entered it, with
the confidence and respect of the entire community. Since
1885 he has been agent for the Defiance Land Company, and as
he has prospered in his business undertaking, he is now the
owner of valuable property in Holgate. True to every trust
reposed in him, he has been called upon to serve as
administrator of several estates, and has probably done more
along this line than any other citizen of Henry county.
Since 1868 he has affiliated with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and is a charter member of Forest Camp, No.
160, I. O. O. R, of Forest, Ohio; is also a charter member
of Holgate Lodge, No. 271, K. of P. Each fall Mr. Fisher
takes an extended hunting trip, as he is exceedingly fond of
that sport and is an excellent marksman.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1899. - Page 280 |
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