MAHONING COUNTY OHIO BIOS: FISCHER, Edward McMillan (published 1925)
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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 188

        EDWARD McMILLAN FISCHER is one of the successful and popular
exponents of floriculture and business in the City of Youngstown, where, in
partnership with Carl G. Burkland, he conducts one of the largest and most
important enterprises of this kind in Mahoning county.
        Mr. Fischer was born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, in the year,
1869, and is a son of William D. and Ellen (Leslie) Fischer, both likewise
natives of the old Keystone State. William D. Fischer was born and reared
in the vicinity of New Castle, and became a successful representative of
the market-gardening industry in that locality, his death having occurred
in September, 1923, after he had attained to the patriarchal age of
ninety-three years.
        He whose name initiates this review is indebted to the public
schools of Pennsylvania for his youthful education, and at the age of
seventeen years he was admitted to partnership in his father's
market-gardening business and also in the florist business, his brothers
likewise being associated with the well established and prosperous business
long conducted under the family name at New Castle.
        In the year 1906 Mr. Fischer came to Youngstown, Ohio, where for
the ensuing three years he was in the employ of John Walker, florist. He
then formed the partnership with Carl G. Burkland, and, with modern and
well equipped headquarters at 3514 Market Street, they now control a large
and flourishing business in the handling of all kinds of cut flowers and
decorative plants, their greenhouses having an area of 50,000 square feet
of glass and the business being now the most important of the kind in the
city. The enterprise is almost exclusively of retail order, and the
clientage of the firm is of representative and appreciative order.
        Mr. Fischer is a liberal and progressive citizen and substantial
business man, is a republican in politics, is prominently identified with
the time-honored Masonic fraternity, in which he has received the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he and his wife are active
members of the Evergreen Presbyterian Church.
        The year 1900 recorded the marriage of Mr. Fisher and Miss Mollie
Cromwell, who likewise was born and reared at New Castle, Pennsylvania, and
who is a daughter of John Cromwell. Mr. and Mrs. Fischer have one son,
Edward, who was born in June, 1911.





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