Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Fish, William R. 1843 - 1891
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Author: James L. King (1905)

WILLIAM R. FISH.

    WILLIAM R. FISH, deceased, was formerly one of the prominent business men
and substantial citizens of Topeka. Mr. Fish was born March 6, 1843, at Dupont,
Jefferson County, Indiana, and was a son of Marshall and Sarah C. (Abbott) Fish.
On the paternal side the family ancestry reached to the pioneers of Kentucky.  
On the maternal side the ancestry was Irish.

    The Fish family removed to Illinois during our subject's boyhood and he.
attended the public schools of Marion County. When 18 years of age, he went to
Chicago where he enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering Company G, 88th
Reg., Illinois Vol. Inf. He served through the war, participating in 18 serious
engagements and many skirmishes, but surviving all dangers and returning safely
home, with a soldier's honors, in 1865. In 1881 he established himself in the
coffee and tea business at Topeka, where he prospered and gained the confidence
and esteem of his fellow citizens. His death took place in June, 1891, as the
result of a lamentable railway accident.

    Mr. Fish was married in 1870, at Kinmundy, Illinois, to Sarah E. Nevill, who
is a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Fuell) Nevill, natives of Kentucky. They
had two children, viz: William R.; and Kitty M., who died aged three years. Mrs.
Fish and son reside in their handsome home at No. 411 Greenwood avenue, Potwin
Place. Mr. Fish was fraternally associated with the Knights of Honor and the
National Union.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.

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