Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Fisher, Volney H 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Fisher, Volney H. – It often happens that a man learns a trade, is successful 
at it, and yet finds that his true life work lies in another direction.  The 
sensible man when he discovers such a condition, enters into his new work, and 
develops its proportions until he is satisfied with his progress.  This has 
been the case with Volney H. Fisher of Morris, Ill., who has not only achieved 
profitable results as a carpenter and builder, but made his name known 
throughout the State as manufacturer of been keepers’ supplies, as well as a 
grower of bees.  Mr. Fisher was born at Morris, March 10, 1875, a son of Lyman 
A. and Margaret H. (Hazelton) Fisher, natives of New Hampshire, and Brooklyn, 
N. Y., respectively.  They were married at Brooklyn, where he was engaged as a 
carpenter and ship builder.  In 1858, the family came to Chicago, where Mr. 
Fisher worked as a carpenter, later going to Sterling and other Illinois 
points, until January 1, 1871, he settled at Morris, where he continued at his 
trade until his death, in February, 1891.  His widow survives, making her home 
at No. 842 E. Benton Street, Morris, where she has six acres of land.  Mrs. 
Fisher is seventy years old at time of writing.  The children born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Fisher were:  Solon H., born in 1864, died in August, 1902; Horace H., of 
Los Angeles, Cal., and Volney H., who resides with his mother.

Volney H. Fisher was educated in the common schools and the Morris high school 
and learned the trade of a carpenter with his father, while still attending 
school.  In the years that followed, he built a number of handsome residences 
both in Morris and the surrounding country, and still takes contracts for 
building.  In 1896, his attention was attracted to bee culture, and he 
gradually came to devote more and more of his time to this work, until he now 
keeps from fifteen to fifty hives of bees.  This calling led him into the 
manufacture of bee keepers’ supplies, which he sells all over the State, and 
he also sells bees.  His various lines of endeavor keep him busy so that he 
has little time for outside matters, but votes the Republican ticket.  Mr. 
Fisher is not married.  He is a Presbyterian in religious faith.  For some 
years, he has been a valued member of the Bee Keepers’ Association.  A man who 
pays strict attention to his own affairs, and tried to do his full duty in 
discharging the obligations of a citizen, he has won enviable distinction 
among his fellow citizens as an honorable, upright man, whose efforts have 
been rewarded with a success that is deserved.

pages 810-811

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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