Tehama-Siskiyou County CA Archives Biographies.....Fish, La Fayette 1827 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 31, 2007, 4:40 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891) LA FAYETTE FISH, a prominent and progressive farmer of Tehama County, is a native of New York, dating his birth November 21, 1827. He is the second of five children born to P. William and Lois (Grover) Fish, both natives of Vermont. The father died in 1854, and the mother survived until 1870. When our subject was nine years of age the parents moved to the State of Michigan, and in 1840 moved back to New York, settling in Genesee County. In 1842 they went to Iowa, locating in Scott County, where our subject attended the public schools and completed his education at the select high school. For two years following he taught school in Davenport, and in 1853 crossed the plains to Oregon, and in 1854 came to California, locating at Yreka, where he engaged in mining. In 1856 he returned to the States, via Panama, remaining four years. In 1860 he again crossed the plains to California, locating near Tehama, where he engaged in general farming and stock-raising, making a specialty of the latter. In 1871 he located on his present farm of eighty acres, situated one mile north of Corning, in Tehama County. Mr. Fish was married in Hickory Grove, Iowa, November 18, 1858, to Miss Jennie Carter, and they have four children living: William A., Oren, who died July 14, 1867; Jennie M., Alfred R. and Grant C. Mr. Fish has always taken a warm interest in the cause of education, and in 1867 was appointed a Trustee of Tehama School District. Politically Judge Fish is a Republican, and takes an active part in all the political issues of the day, having been in 1888 selected as one of the delegates from Tehama County to the Republican State Convention. In 1878 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and is still holding that office. Judge Fish has served his district faithfully and honorably, and by his impartial administration of justice and legal ability, has acquired the confidence and respect of the people of Tehama County. Additional Comments: Extracted from Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California. Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of To-day. "A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendents." – Macauley. CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1891. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/tehama/bios/fish612gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb