History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 765 and after that awful conflict, the family found itself wrecked, with everything lostsave the resolution to work and retrieve. P. A. Fisher remained in Virginia until 1872, and for a number of years workedon the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Then he set out for Illinois, and on October27. 1872, located in Woodford County, where he helped to survey and lay ou
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 765 and after that awful conflict, the family found itself wrecked, with everything lostsave the resolution to work and retrieve. P. A. Fisher remained in Virginia until 1872, and for a number of years workedon the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Then he set out for Illinois, and on October27. 1872, located in Woodford County, where he helped to survey and lay out thetown of Roanoke. He himself bought town property, and being on the high road toprosperity, decided to take the ne.\t great step and set up his own domestic estab-lishment. Establishing himself as a contractor in painting, he also became policemagistrate in Roanoke, an office he held for twelve years; during the coal strike in1873, he was appointed deputy sheriff, and rendered valuable service. He was also forseveral years a member of the Democratic County Central Committee. In 1909, Mr. Fisher came out to California and Laguna Beach, where he continuedto take contracts for work. Two years later, he
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