Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Fisher, Isaac 1814 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

ISAAC FISHER, a farmer near Woodland, is one of the enterprising ranchers of
Yolo County who have demonstrated that a small farm can be made sufficiently
remunerative for a livelihood. He was born in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania,
March 4, 1829, a son of Henry and Magdalene (Snavley) Fisher. Her father was a
miller by trade and also a farmer by occupation, and moved to Indiana in 1837,
where he lived until 1858. Then he came overland to California, in company with
his son John H. He was taken sick on the route, and lived but three weeks after
his arrival at the home of the subject of this sketch, dying at the age of
sixty-three years. Isaac was seven years old when he was taken by his parents in
their change of residence from Pennsylvania to South Bend Indiana, and until
1853 he was engaged there in farming and also employed for a time in the woolen
mills, tanneries, etc. In March, 1853, he left for California, with horse teams,
and came by way of Council Bluffs, Salt Lake and the Carson route, the trip
occupying about six months. He arrived at Sacramento September 19, and for three
months he worked at odd jobs, and then in the mines a few months, and then
returned to the valley in January, and again commenced work at odd jobs. In a
short time he and his brother J. H. purchased a squatter's title of 160 acres of
land and they cultivated it in partnership until 1859, when they dissolved.
Isaac now has eighty acres of land, upon which he nets as great profit as many
who have larger farms. The place is devoted chiefly to alfalfa, and it is
furnished with the best of buildings. It is four miles south of Woodland, on a
fine gravel road. In 1886 Mr. Fisher raised five tons of alfalfa seed from
twenty-five acres, which sold at ten to twelve cents a pound, and he cut on an
average five tons of alfalfa hay to the acre, from sixty-five acres, and does
not boast of the crop. He is a genial, good-natured gentleman, now over
sixty-one years old, appearing, however, not to be over fifty. He is a member of
Woodland Lodge, No. 22, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and is a Republican in
his political views. In 1840 he helped to raise a flag-pole to the honor of
General W. H. Harrison.

  He was married in 1866, to Miss Mary Cunningham, a native of Ohio, who is now
deceased; they had two daughters. Mr. Fisher was married again in March, 1878,
to Miss Anna Rhoads, a native of Indiana, and by this marriage there have been
three sons and one daughter.


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.


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