Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Fisher, David A. 1855 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

DAVID A. FISHER.

    David A. Fisher, of Section 29, Eagle Creek township, has been among the
leading farmers of this part of Lake county for the past twenty years, and
carries on his operations on an unusually extensive scale. He is a native son of
the county and township, and most of the years of a very busy and successful
business career have been spent here. Besides farming, he has at various times
branched out into commercial lines, where he has likewise been prosperous, and
in citizenship and matters of community interest he performs his part in a
public-spirited and generous manner.

    Mr. Fisher was born in Eagle Creek township, Lake county, March 13, 1855,
and was reared and educated in the county. From the public schools he went to
Valparaiso and took a course in the Northern Indiana Normal School. For two
years he was engaged in the hardware and implement business at Hebron, during
1882-83. In 1884 he returned to the farm, where he has found his pleasantest and
most profitable scene of work. He has done general farming and stock-raising,
and has the management of five hundred and ninety-five acres, with four men in
his employ. During 1902 and 1903 he was once more in the implement business,
selling binders, mowers and other farm machinery manufactured by the Plano
Company. For some months in 1879-80 he was in Colorado for his health, and
during the winter was engaged in freighting from Colorado Springs and Leadville,
and he also spent a part of the same winter in New Mexico. Mr. Fisher is one of
the influential Republicans in local affairs, and served his township as trustee
from 1886 to 1890. He affiliates with the Masonic lodge No. 502 at Hebron and
the Independent Order of Foresters at Hebron.

    In 1876 Mr. Fisher married Miss Elizabeth Bliss, and for their wedding
journey they attended the Centennial at Philadelphia. Mrs. Fisher was born in
New York state and was reared in Pulaski county, Indiana. They are the parents
of two sons: Kenneth William and Winford B. Kenneth has received his diploma
from the public schools in the class of 1902 and will take an extended course in
schools of higher instruction. Winford married, June 11, 1903, Miss Lilly B.
Volkee, of Eagle Creek township.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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