J. R. FISHER - Biography

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This biography appears on page 677 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

J. R. FISHER, farmer; P. O. Waterford; born in York, Livingston Co., N.
Y., April 12, 1835; son of Rev. John and Catherine Fisher; Mrs. Fisher
came to Wisconsin Oct. 4, 1848: the father died in York July 22, 1845;
he left eight children, five now living; she settled on Sec. 17, in town
of Waterford, and died Jan. 14, 1876; was buried at Vernon, Waukesha
Co., in the burial ground of the Reformed Presbyterian Church; James R.
and his sister Catharine still retain the old homestead; both unmarried.
The farm consists of 200 acres; eighty acres are under cultivation; he
raises a fine quality of domestic stock-cattle, horses, sheep and hogs,
and all kinds of grain. John K., a brother, is an old frontiersman, and
has traveled through the Far West; was in Montana in 1863; was a
member'of the "Vigilantes," who were obliged to resort to extreme
measures to rid that country of a band of the worst border ruffians ever
known to a new country. He assisted in hanging twenty-four men; the
first hung was George Ives, of Ives' Grove, Racine Co., Wis.; the chief
of the band was Robert Plumber, of Waukesha, Wis. John K. married Miss
Florence Johncoy, of Waterford, July 10, 1874; they have two children -
Robert S. and Walter F.; independent in religion and politics.