Alexander Fisher

Gravestone

1. Alexander Fisher, who was born in Ayer, Scotland, in 1801*, came to Montreal in 1818, and afterward married, 1819, to Miss Agnes Brown, born at Paisley, Scotland, daughter of Alexander Brown who came to this country in 1805. They had eight children, six of whom are now living, three sons and one daughter having been for many years residents in the county.

2. William Fisher, the oldest of these three sons, was married to Miss N. Bryant. They have three children, David A. Fisher, dealer in hardware in Hebron, Mrs. Arabella Hayward, living near Ross, and Miss Ida E. Fisher. Living for many years on the west and then on the east side of Eagle Creek, on the Hebron and Lowell mail road, the family have lately removed to Hebron.

2. Thomas Fisher, coming to this county in 1850, becoming a permanent resident in 1851, was married to Miss Mary Brown, a daughter of Alexander Brown, of South East Grove. Living for some years in Eagle Creek, they have for many of the later years been residents of Crown Point. They have no children.

2. John Fisher, born in Schenectady county, New York, in 1832, coming to this county in 1855, was married in 1865 to Miss Joanna Willey. They live near Crown Point and have one son.

These three brothers, the Lake county representatives of a large family, are all well off, having accumulated property and having married into old and wealthy families. The first has been for some thirty years a farmer, and has held the office of county commissioner, and has now retired to business life at Hebron. The second has carried on a factory for some thirty years, has been a farmer a portion of the time, and then a retired town resident, accumulating steadily year by year by the increase of capital and by business enterprise. And the third, coming as a surveyor, becoming at length a farmer, has been for many years county surveyor, an office which he still holds. He is a man of fine and generous impulses and deservedly popular, a valuable friend.

3. Of the third generation, and bearing the family name, there is now in the county but one, George W. Fisher, a promising youth, the only son of J. and Mrs. J. Fisher.

* NOTE -- The above account Alexander Fisher was born in 1801, but Mr. Fisher's gravestone (see photo) clearly shows that he died Apr. 7, 1866 at age 75, which would put his birth year around 1791.