Biography of 	Fischer Lumber & Manufacturing, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller August 2001

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Fischer Lumber & Manufacturing company, limited, Picayune Saw and Planing mills,
New Orleans, La.  The founder of the business of this company, F. Fischer, now
practically retired from business, is one of the oldest lumbermen of this
vicinity.  He has been in the trade since 1865, and although he started in a
modest way, with resources that are indicated by the name of the establishment,
had meanwhile acquired a very large business.  He was originally from Prussia,
Germany, born in 1818, and was educated in his native country.  He came to New
Orleans in 1839, connected himself with the lumber and shingle business before
the war, and as above stated, established this mill in 1865.  Four of his sons
succeeded him in business: Cooney B., Theodore J., Emile 0. and Joe L.  The sons
are all natives of New Orleans.  Their father retired in 1884 and sold the
entire business to his sons.  They have their own timber lands in Louisiana and
Mississippi, and have in the cypress swamps of this vicinity a large force of
men getting out material for their mill in New Orleans.  The Picayune mill is
situated on the river bank at the foot of Carrollton avenue, in the Seventh
district of New Orleans.  The premises occupied are large and commodious, the
buildings and yards covering an area of over four entire squares of ground, and
are supplied with every facility for carrying on this special line of business. 
Their trade extends all over the country and to foreign markets.  They have an
abundant supply of the largest and best cypress logs ever brought to this or to
any other market, and their stock consists of the largest assortment of cypress
lumber in the Southern states.  The firm will be pleased to quote prices upon
application.  They are prepared to do all kinds of sawing on short notice and on
the most reasonable terms.  Over 200 hands are constantly employed in the
various departments of their business; their annual transactions amount to over
10,000,000 feet of lumber.  From the foregoing account of this concern it will
be readily seen that Fischer Lumber & Manufacturing company, limited, have ample
capital, credit and resources with which to compete for city or country trade. 
A long and honorable career under the management of the elder Fischer is surety
for all transactions with the house, which will be discovered to be one of the
most accommodating and satisfactory in its line to have dealings with.  The
elder Fischer was formerly a director in the Germania bank, and the Teutonia
Insurance company.  He is a prominent member of the Mechanic, Dealer & Lumber
exchange.  He never took a very active part in politics, but attended strictly
to business.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 415.  Published
by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.