Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Fisher, Herman R. 1867 - living in 1917
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HERMAN R. FISHER.

    Herman R. Fisher, well-known florist at Marysville and the proprietor of a
well-established and flourishing greenhouse in that city, is a native of
Germany, but has been a resident of this country since he was three years of
age. He was born in West Prussia on May 22, 1867, son of Christian and Louise
(Schultz) Fisher, natives of that same country, who were the parents of seven
children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last-born and of whom five
are still living.

    Christian Fisher was a laborer in his native country and died there in the
year 1870, after which, in that same year, his widow and her three youngest
children came to this country and located at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mrs. Fisher
was without money and shortly after her arrival at Milwaukee two of her children
were stricken with typhoid fever. For a time the little family was compelled to
live in an old barn and the outlook for brighter days in the new country was far
from promising. Some time later Mrs. Fisher married John Gerber, a farmer, who
settled in Blue Earth county, Minnesota, but later returned to Milwaukee, where
Mrs. Gerber spent her last days, her death occurring in 1897, she then being
seventy-four years of age.

    Herman R. Fisher was but a child when his mother and his stepfather settled
in Minnesota and he there received a limited education in the district school in
the neighborhood of his home in Blue Earth county. At the age of ten years he
started out working for himself, working on his brother's farm and helping to
clear the same of the growth of timber that cumbered the same, at an early age
driving an ox-team and hauling logs to the sawmill. He worked on farms in
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois and then returned to Milwaukee, where he took
employment in the machine shops of E. P. Allis & Company. He later began working
on a fruit and vegetable farm and was thus engaged for two years, there
acquiring his liking for the line of endeavor in which he later was destined to
become so successful, floral culture in his case being the outcome of the
experience he gained in the culture of fruits and vegetables on that Milwaukee
truck farm. Mr. Fisher later worked at various jobs and in 1901 started to work
in a Milwaukee greenhouse, presently being promoted to the position of foreman
in the same. Later he became a traveling florist and before he eventually
settled down had worked as a florist in eighteen states. He was located at Falls
City, Nebraska, for six months and in 1910, a few months after his marriage,
moved to Marysville, this county, where he engaged in the greenhouse business in
partnership with D. VonRiesen. That partnership continued for nine months, at
the end of which time Mr. Fisher bought his partner's interest in the business
and has since been conducting the same alone, being now the owner of a very
substantial and well-developed property, where his extensive and well-equipped
greenhouses stand, and has long been regarded as one of the leading florists in
this part of the state, demands for his products being much more than merely
local. Mr. Fisher located at Marysville with but little capital, but by the
exercise of his rare skill and sound judgment in business has prospered and has
built up a fine business in his line. Mr. Fisher is "independent" in his
political views, but has ever given his intelligent attention to local civic
affairs and has rendered valuable service to the community as a member of the
Marysville city council.

    On October 20, 1909, at Kansas City, Missouri, Herman R. Fisher was united
in marriage to Tessie Cupples, who was born at Eldorado, Kansas, July 28, 1883,
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Long) Cupples, natives of the state of
Pennsylvania, the former a carpenter, who are now living at Eldorado, where Mrs.
Fisher was reared and where she received her schooling. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are
earnest and active members of the Methodist church at Marysville and Mr. Fisher
is a member of the board of trustees of the same and the leader of the "gospel
team" in the men's Bible class in the Sunday school. Mr. Fisher is a Royal Arch
Mason and a Knight Templar and has held numerous Masonic offices, taking a warm
interest in the affairs of that ancient organization. At this writing he is
occupying the chair of worshipful master of the lodge at Marysville. The success
that Mr. Fisher has attained he attributes to his efforts of trying to lead a
Christian life. He, for one, thinks so, and wishes that everyone who reads his
biography would do the same. He says he knows it pays.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

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