Newton Co., IN Bio

Newton County, Jefferson Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883. 

   JOHN FISHER, retired farmer, was born April 23, 1833, in Sultz 
County, Alsace, France, and is a son of George and Mary A. (Rosner) 
Fisher, both natives of Alsace.  They came to American in 1842,
landing in New York after a voyage of thirty-seven days.  Thence
they moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where the father died in August
and the mother in September 1843, and were buried in the Catholic 
Cemetery; the former was fifty-eight, and the latter, sixty-three
years old.  George Fisher drew a pension while in France, having been 
a soldier under Napoleon, and wounded at the battle of Leipsic.
   John was eleven years old when he came here.  From his sixth to 
eleventh year, he attended school and studied the French and German 
languages.  He went to school in Louisville one year before his parents
died, when he began working for himself, in a bagging factory.  The 
first year his wages were $2 per week, the second year $3, and the
third $4.
   From this he went to learn his trade, stove molding, at which he 
continued to work four years, and then went as a farm hand in Dubois
County, Indiana at $10 per month.  He continued two years, when he 
married May 17, 1856, Veronica Erb, only child of Joseph and Anna 
(Schwab) Erb, of Dubois County, formerly of Baden, Germany. From that
date he has been farming for himself.
   In 1869, Mr. Fisher, his wife and her parents came to Benton County
and settled tow and one-half miles northeast of Earl Park, where he and
his wife own 120 acres of well improved land.  He moved to Kentland in 
February, 1882.  His father-in-law Erb lives with him, aged eighty, Mrs. 
Erb having died in July, 1877, aged seventy-eight.  Mr. Erb and Mr. 
Fisher are Democrats and all are Catholics.


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