Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Fisher, Daniel 1821 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

DANIEL FISHER, one of the old and well known farmers of Yolo County, residing
near Woodland, dates his birth November, 1821, in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania,
a son of Henry and Margaret (Stavely) Fisher. Henry Fisher was a miller by trade
and also followed farming. He moved to South Bend, Indiana, in 1837, and in 1857
came overland to California, and died three weeks after his arrival here, at the
age of sixty-two years. Daniel, the subject of this notice, was reared on a
farm, and lived in South Bend with his parents. In 1844 he started out in life
for himself, going first to Ohio, most of the way on foot, through mud and rain,
to Holmes County, where he learned the trade of weaving figured coverlets, and
followed the same for twelve years, until 1857, when he came to California, that
journey occupying the time from March to September. The trip was a pleasant one,
although the emigrants generally suffered a great deal, over 500 being killed by
Indians that year. On arrival here Mr. Fisher at once rented land and began
farming it. In 1858 he purchased a squatter's title to his present home,
consisting then of 160 acres, three miles southeast of Woodland. In 1864 he made
a purchase of 160 more adjoining, and since then he has had one of the best
farms in the county. It is now well stocked with substantial buildings and other
improvements. The land is specially adapted to alfalfa, and he carries on
general farming and stock-raising. In religious matters he is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and in political a Republican.

  In 1846 he married Miss Margaret Shuder, a native of Ohio, and they have four
sons and three daughters, namely: Henry; Emma, wife of Ira Dopkins; Elizabeth,
wife of Alexander Stamp; Frank; Charles; Amelia, now Mrs. Henry Jeans; and Edgar
H.


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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.


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