Max Fischer, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by Mike Miller 


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The life record of Max Fischer is one of more than usual interest,
and his career has been of such benefit and influence to the people 
of Pointe Coupee, as well as the surrounding parishes, that a sketch 
of his life will be of interest to all. He was born in the state 
in which he is now residing in the month of July, 1844, the third of six 
children born to the marriage of Frederick Fischer, a native of Germany,
who immigrated from his native town of Wurtemberg to America when a 
young man, and in after life became assistant clerk of the court for 
West Feliciana Parish, which position he held for many years, being at 
other times a bookkeeper and school teacher. He graduated from a college
in the fatherland, was highly cultured and possessed many worthy traits
of character. Max Fischer secured his education chiefly in the common
schools and at the age of eighteen years enlisted in the Fourth Louisiana
Infantry, C. S. A. In 1863 he left Port Hudson and went to Vicksburg,
where he remained until the surrender of that place when he went to Mobile,
Ala., and afterward to Georgia. He took part in the Atlanta campaign, and
in the engagement at Kenesaw Mountain was captured and taken to Rock 
Island, Ill., where he was kept in captivity for nine months. At the end
of this time he was removed to Richmond, Va., where he was exchanged 
and came home, making nearly the entire journey on foot. For three or 
four years after the war he was engaged in clerking, after which he 
became associated in business with his employer at Bayou Sara, at which
place he was in active business for about fifteen years. In 1889 he 
moved to Pointe Coupee Parish and here has been engaged in general 
merchandising at Bayou Marounguen ever since. He carries a stock of 
goods worth about $2,500 and by his fair dealing and his desire to 
please his patrons he has built up a paying patronage. He is interested
in a 2,400-acre tract of land of which about 1,000 acres are under 
the plow, between 700 and 800 acres being devoted to the culture of 
cotton. He was married in 1874 to Miss Barrow, a daughter of David Barrow 
of West Feliciana Parish, the latter having at one time been one of the 
largest planters of the state. To Mr. and Mrs. Fischer a family of twelve 
children have been born, the following of whom are living: Leona and 
Margaret attending Holmes Institute of Virginia; David, attending the 
public school at Lexington, Ky.; August; Florence M.; J. H. G.; Max G., 
and Emmet. The family attend the Episcopal church, and Mr. Fischer is a 
member of the K. of P. He has always been industrious and thrifty, and is 
now one of the leading men of his section and a useful member of society.


Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), pp. 415-416. 
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.