. The genealogy and descendants of Luke Fish, sr., in chronological order from 1760-1904. God. About tie\,a- 1821 or 1822 he was influenced byMichael Marlay and Joseph Park tojoin them in the moral reform in whichthey were so zealously engaged. Hischildren are:— 1—WILLIAM, born November 24. —MARGARET, born November 11, —THOMAS, born December 2, —ELIZABETH, born March IS, 1821. 5—LUKE SIDNEY, born March 31. —EDWARD, born August 7, —MARY JANE, born August 15. —JAMES, born August 2S. 1S29. 9—GEORGE WASHINGTON, bornFebruary 22. 1S32. 10—HANNAH, born July 16, 183
. The genealogy and descendants of Luke Fish, sr., in chronological order from 1760-1904. God. About tie\,a- 1821 or 1822 he was influenced byMichael Marlay and Joseph Park tojoin them in the moral reform in whichthey were so zealously engaged. Hischildren are:— 1—WILLIAM, born November 24. —MARGARET, born November 11, —THOMAS, born December 2, —ELIZABETH, born March IS, 1821. 5—LUKE SIDNEY, born March 31. —EDWARD, born August 7, —MARY JANE, born August 15. —JAMES, born August 2S. 1S29. 9—GEORGE WASHINGTON, bornFebruary 22. 1S32. 10—HANNAH, born July 16, 1834. 11—HENRY, born August 24. 1836. 12—SARAH, born May 28, 1S38. WILLIAM TISH William Fish was the first child ofLuke, Jr., and Mary Fish, and was bornin Carlisle, England, on November 24,1814. He was in his fifth year when hecame to America with his parents, whosettled on a farm near Dayton, Ohio, in1819. Early put to work, his only educa-tion was obtained by reading by the lightof the fire in the> chimney corner suchbooks as he could obtain. He worked on. WILLIAM FISH the farm, and learned to weave on thehandloom at home, making clothing forthe family, until he was twenty years ofage. Leaving the farm about 1835, withonly a suit of jeans and little money, hewent to Dayton, Ohio, to enter uponlifes struggles, where he found work ina. woolen mill. Wool was exchanged foryarns, jeans and flannels. He remained inDayton until 1839, when he moved to hisfathers farm in Shelby County, work in the mills induced Wil- liam to go to Dayton again in 1841, re-maining there till 1847. when he went toSpringfield, Ohio, working in a woolenmill eleven hours a day. Times werehard on account of the panic. Seventy-five cents a day was called good pay then,and money could not be had. Then fol-lowed the cholera scourge, William beingstricken, but lived to bless the nameof Mary Buvinger, who took his familyto her home in Dayton, providing forthem through 111 ?
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