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History of Floyd County, Iowa
Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co.,
1882.
LaCrosse, WI : Brookhaven Press, 2000 [Reprint]
Submitted by Dick
Barton
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William N. Fisher,
Pages 740 - 741
Constable, sexton of cemetery, and farmer,
was born in Washington County, Vt., June
13, 1829, a son of Silas W. and Emily (Peck) Fisher; father a native of
New Hampshire and mother of Vermont. Of a family of three children the
subject of this sketch was the eldest, and is the only one living. He
was brought up on a farm, and when within two months of age he left home
and worked out two or three years, and in 1854 came West, to Rockford,
Ill. In the spring of 1857 he went to Minnesota with three yoke of
cattle to break prairie; but hard times came on and he lost nearly all.
He then located to Charles City and started a meat market, which
business he prosecuted extensively. Some seasons he would kill as many
as fifty or sixty hogs at a time, which were hauled to market at
McGregor. But in the following spring he abandoned the market, and did
odd jobs until 1860, when he started for Pike’s Peak; at Denver,
however, he learned such facts as discouraged him from going further,
and he returned, footing all the way from Omaha to Charles City. In the
autumn of 1864 he was drafted and attached to Company G, Twenty-seventh
Iowa Infantry; in the army, during the winter, he contracted rheumatism,
and was sent to the hospital, where he remained until July. After the
close of the war he returned home to Charles City. Except what time he
was in the war, he has been Constable ever since 1858. The first time he
was elected he had failed of a nomination in caucus by a vote or two,
and he ran independently, and yet was elected almost unanimously. In
1862 he was appointed Constable, the elected man not qualifying. He ran
independently again in 1868, and was again elected. Mr. Fisher has done
much for the interests of his community. In the way of fence-building he
as done more than any other man in the county, and probably excels all
in the neatness of his work. He has, by his business talent, accumulated
considerable property and money, and is now independent and happy. Oct.
3, 1867, in Rockford, this county, he married Miss Mary Rudd, of
Rockford, Ill., daughter of Joe M. and Miranda (Palmer) Rudd, her
parents having been early settlers of Buffalo, N. Y. She is a member of
the Christian church. Of their two children, Victoria E. is living, and
Chester S. is deceased.
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