Clinton County IN Archives Biographies.....Fisher, Samuel Belt 1825 - 
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Author: Interstate Publishing Co.

    SAMUEL BELT FISHES, M. D., a successful practitioner of Rossville, was born
near Dayton, in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1825, a son of John and Catherine
(Charles) Fisher, the father a native of Virginia, of German and Scotch
ancestry, and the mother born in Pennsylvania, of French and German origin, her
father coming to America with the French army in 1877, he being First Lieutenant
under General La Fayette. The parents were married in Highland County, Ohio, in
1821, and to them were born four children—John C., of Carroll County, Indiana;
Samuel B., our subject; Andrew R. and Barbara, deceased wife of Dr. G. W.
Crowfoot, of Rossville. The father died in Carroll County, in 1841, aged
forty-one years. In politics he was a Democrat. His widow survived till 1874,
dying at Rossville, aged seventy-four years. She was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church of late years, but in early life belonged to the United
Brethren denomination. Samuel B., our subject, was reared to agricultural
pursuits, his father being a farmer by occupation, and in his youth he attended
the district schools, although his education was obtained principally by private
study. He came with his parents to Indiana when thirteen years of age, they
locating in Carroll County. He was left fatherless at the age of fifteen years
when he assisted his brother in the maintenance of his widowed mother till her
death. He followed farming till twenty-six years old when he began the study of
medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. G. W. Crowfoot at Rossville, with whom
he studied four years. He began practicing medicine with his preceptor in 1857,
and has been in constant practice at Rossville. Doctor Fisher was married in
May, 1850, to Miss Margaret Cope, of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. They have six
children—Jennette C.; John J., a graduate of the Eclectic Medical Institute of
Cincinnati, Ohio, and of Bellevue Medical Hospital College of New York City, now
practicing with his father; Fremont, a farmer of Rossville; William H., of
Washington Territory; Loyal B., postmaster of Rossville, and Alonzo, telegraph
operator at Rossville. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, of which he is trustee. He is a member of the Masonic and Odd
Fellows orders, belonging to the lodges of Rossville, and is past grand in the
latter order.

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HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, INDIANA,

TOGETHER WITH SKETCHES OF ITS CITIES, VILLAGES AND TOWNS, EDUCATIONAL,
RELIGIOUS, CIVIL, MILITARY, AND POLITICAL HISTORY, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT
PERSONS, AND BIOGRAPHIES OF REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO:
INTER-STATE PUBLISHING CO.
1886.


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