BIOGRAPHY: John FISHER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 284
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JOHN FISHER is a representative of that sturdy class of Germans who have 
contributed so much to the development of Cambria county. He is a son of John 
and Mary Fisher, and was born October 15, 1827, in Reckenhoven, Germany.
     He was reared and educated in the Fatherland, where he lived until twenty-
seven years of age. At that age he broke away from the associations of his youth 
and emigrated to America, locating at Johnstown. He secured employment in the 
mines operated around Johnstown in connection with the Cambria Iron company, 
being in this employ about fourteen years. Having learned the trade of a butcher 
in his native country, he, at the end of his experience as a miner, went into 
the butchering and retail meat business. He has established a slaughter-shop on 
Water street, where he averages the slaughter of ten beeves, forty to fifty 
hogs, and twenty-five sheep per week, besides all the calves obtainable in this 
market. For the disposition of this product he has established two retail 
markets, one on Clinton street and one on Broad street in Cambria City. Mr. 
Fisher has been three times married. His first wife was Miss Frances Kabler, and 
after her demise, he married a widow, whose maiden name was Margareth 
Morgenroth, and whose name after her first marriage was Margareth Eichensehr. 
Mr. Fisher's present wife's maiden name was Teresa Hegele, who was born May 3, 
1843, in Germany, and is a daughter of Waldiser Hegele, of the empire. To the 
married union of Mr. Fisher and Teresa Hegele have been born the following 
children: George, Mary, wife of Joseph Schonhart, of Johnstown; Cecilia, wife of 
George Lumbacher of Johnstown, and Lena, Kate, Frances, Henry, Annie, and Frank, 
at home.