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 . guna Beach, popularly knownby all who are acquainted with and esteem him as OT Dad Fisher, who wasable, some years ago, to retire to his equally well-known and appropriately namedranch, Sweet Home. He was born in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., on May 19, 1848,the son of Abraham Fisher, also a Virginian, and an expert mechanic and ancestors on the Fisher side came from the B
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 . guna Beach, popularly knownby all who are acquainted with and esteem him as OT Dad Fisher, who wasable, some years ago, to retire to his equally well-known and appropriately namedranch, Sweet Home. He was born in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., on May 19, 1848,the son of Abraham Fisher, also a Virginian, and an expert mechanic and ancestors on the Fisher side came from the British Isles, while his maternal ances-tors migrated from Holland. Abraham Fisher had married Miss Lucy Shepard, and shewas a native of Pennsylvania. They both attended the Methodist Church, and Abra-ham Fisher stood so well in the community that he was the justice of the peace. Our subject attended the log cabin school, but only for about fourteen months,and most of the education he acquired was after the .Abraham Lincoln fashion—reachedafter and seized by himself. An older brother, Benjamin, enlisted as a lad of onlysixteen years in the Confederate Army and served for four years during the Civil War;.
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