J.L. FISHER
August 1, 1897
Arizona Republican Newspaper

Hon. J.S. Fisher died this morning of peritonitis after an illness 
of four days. He was 51 years of age, had been a resident of this 
county twenty eight years and leaves a wife and three children.  
He was a general merchant and a director of the Prescott National 
Bank. He had been a member of the legislature, a member of the 
Board of Supervisors and was once mayor of Prescott.  He belonged 
to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of 
Pythias and the Woodmen of the World.  His funeral will take place 
Monday morning.

Mr. Fisher was a native of England but before coming to Arizona 
had lived for some time in British Columbia where he learned the 
printer's trade. He was at one time engaged on the Miner at 
Prescott as a printer and again as a reporter.

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