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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History
of
Sangamon County, Illinois
Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships,
Educational,
Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits
of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of
Representative Citizens.
HISTORY OF ILLINOIS
Embracing Accounts of the Pre-Historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and
Political and Military History
- ILLUSTRATED -
Publ. Chicago:
Interstate Publishing Company
1881.
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ABRAHAM H. FISHER,
Jeweler, and dealer in musical instruments, 504 south side
of square, located in business at his present number eight
years ago. He occupies two floors of the building
twenty by ninety-six. The store is beautifully fitted
up and furnished with several ample burgler proof safes,
which serve as depositories for his elegant stock of
diamonds and fine jewelry, aggregating $35,000 in value.
The second floor is devoted to musical merchandise where may
be seen constantly in stock many of the best standard
instruments, among them the Steinway, Weber, Steck, and
Fisher pianos, and the Esty, Burdett, New England and Taylor
and Farley organs, for all of which Mr. Fisher has
the agency in this part of Illinois. He keeps three
traveling salesmen on the road in the interest of his music
trade. He is also a partner in the music house of
Fisher & Jenkins established in August, 1881, on north
Sixth street, which carries on a wholesale and retail
business in the same class of pianos and organs, handling in
the same class of pianos and organs, handling all kinds of
small instruments and sheet music besides. Mr.
Fisher is a Pennsylvanian by birth, and is thirty-seven
years old. He came to Springfield, Illinois, in April,
1869, and has been identified with this branch if mercantile
business ever since. His parents and family came to
the city with him. His father, John Fisher died
here in 1876, and the widow and five sons and two daughters
are residents of Springfield. The subject of this
article remains unmarried.
Source: History of Sangamon Co., IL - publ. 1881 -
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STEPHEN D. FISHER was
born in Charlotte, Vermont, Mar. 7, 1822. When a year
old his parents moved to Essex, New York, where he attended
school, he also attended the West Point Academy. He
left Essex, New York, for Springfield, Illinois September
1844, and taught school one quarter in the Baker District
and at Rochester one year, and in May, 1846, returned to
Essex, New York, where he was engaged in teaching until the
spring of 1850, when he returned to Rochester, Illinois, and
taught during the winters of 1851 and '52, and Oct. 19,
1852, was married to Miss Marion J. St. Clair, at
Rochester; she was born in Essex, New York, Sept. 18, 1828,
and died in 1867; she was a daughter of L. H. St. Clair,
born in Vermont, May 6, 1800; he was a farmer and a
cloth-dresser by trade, and died Apr. 14, 1866; his wife,
Miss Lurenda Spaulding, born in Vermont Oct. 31, 1799,
died in Rochester, Illinois, Feb. 21, 1853. They had
eight children, were both members of the Second Presbyterian
Church, in Springfield. After Mr. S. D. Fisher
was married, in 1852, he settled in Waynesville, Illinois,
where he was book-keeper in a store of general merchandise,
two years, when he went with the same firm to Atlanta, where
he was book-keeper until 1875, when he came to Springfield,
Illinois, and was elected Secretary of the State Board of
Agriculture, a position he has faithfully filled and still
retains. He was elected a member of the Illinois State
Board of Equalization in 1872, served three years, when he
resigned on account of his duties as Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, he was a member of this board four
years, before he was a member of this board four years
before he was appointed secretary: He was married to
his present wife, Miss Elzina M. Benton, Oct. 20,
1868. She was born in Ohio, Nov. 30, 1844; she was a
daughter of Francis A. Benton who was born in Lenox,
Massachusetts Apr. 30, 1816. He was a graduate and
followed teaching as a profession, he died in Lincoln,
Illinois, Nov. 10, 1866; his wife, Elizabeth A. Ketcham
was born in Connecticut, April 1823; they were married in
Berkshire, Ohio, Nov. 9, 1842. They had four children,
three living, Eliznia M., Moretta A., and Frank J.
Benton. Asa Fisher, father of S. D.
Fisher, was born in Vermont, Apr. 25, 1781, he died in
Troy, New York, in 1832, he was married to Lavisa D.
Smith, in Vermont, Jan. 1, 1807, she was born in
Vermont, Jan. 2, 1792, and died at Whallonsburg, New York,
May 25, 1838.
Source: History of Sangamon Co., IL - publ. 1881 -
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