Yolo-Sutter County CA Archives Biographies.....Fisher, James Richard 1858 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory (1913)

JAMES RICHARD FISHER

    Bereft by fate of the kindly ministrations of parents during the formative
period of childhood and forced by poverty to forego educational opportunities in
order to earn a livelihood, Mr. Fisher struggled against adversity and
discouragement and has won his way to a gratifying position in the community
where for thirty years he has been an honored resident. While he was still very
young the Civil war cast its dark shadow over the country and his father,
Benjamin F., a Missourian by birth, nevertheless took up arms in defense of the
Union and bore a brave part in various battles of the Rebellion. During the
period of his service he was stricken with measles and the disease terminated
fatally. Learning of his illness his wife, who was a Miss Pace, a native of
Missouri, hastened to the camp to nurse and care for him. There she, too, fell
ill with the same disease and both of them died in the soldier's camp. They left
to mourn them an only son, who was still too young to realize his heavy loss,
and an only daughter, Mary Jane, who died at the age of eighteen years.

    Born in Johnson county, Mo., April 16, 1858, James R. Fisher passed the
years of boyhood on a farm in his native locality. During 1874 he went to Texas
and worked on a farm in Denton county. After a brief period there he went
further west in the state and for four years worked on a cattle ranch. Coming to
California in 1881 he joined an uncle and aunt in Yolo county and afterward
spent several years as a hand on a ranch. It was not until 1897 that he
established domestic ties. On the 14th of November of that year he married Annie
E., daughter of U. B. Sassaman, and a native of Sutter county, this state, her
father having migrated hither from Pennsylvania in a very early day.

    For thirty years or more Mr. Fisher has lived in Yolo county, where in 1891
he bought ten acres adjacent to the village of Yolo and included within the
limits of the town. Here he built a house and a barn and made other
improvements. With the exception of engaging in the butcher business and
carrying on a meat market at Yolo for two years, he has earned his livelihood
from his little farm, where for some years he has kept several fine cows and has
made a specialty of dairying. At present he also engages in the poultry business
with profit and on an extensive scale. In view of the fact that he came to this
county without means and incurred a heavy debt in buying his present place, he
is to be credited with sagacity and energy in attaining a competency through his
exertions. While he has been a voter at Yolo for thirty years he has never
sought office and, aside from casting a Republican ballot, he has taken no part
whatever in politics. In religious connections he is identified with the First
Baptist Church of Woodland. Many years ago he joined the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows at Knight's Landing, which he has served as an official and has been
a leader in many of the activities of the organization. In the quiet round of
daily duties he has lived a busy life among the people of the community. Without
the ties of near kindred to draw him back to his native locality, he has
centered his affections upon the home of his adoption and believes Yolo county
to be as desirable a location as may be found for those desirous of enjoying a
quiet, useful and contented existence.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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