San Joaquin County Biographies
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HENRY A. FISCHER
Born in New York City, August 14, 1855, Henry A. Fischer has been a resident of California since he was two years of age. He is a son of Gotlob and Margaret Fischer, natives of Bavaria, Germany, who emigrated to New York City. In 1857 Mr. Fischer brought his wife and little son Henry to California, coming via the Isthmus of Panama route to San Francisco. He was a basketmaker by trade. In 1860, however, he located in Peach Tree Valley, sixty miles south of Gilroy, where he followed sheepraising until 1863; then he changed his range to Hunting Hollow and Gilroy Hot Springs. However, the dry season of 1864 caused him a very heavy loss and he moved back to San Francisco. He and his wife resided there until their death.
Henry, the eldest of their six children, received a good education in the public schools in San Francisco. When eighteen years old he quit school to go to work in a shoe factory and learning the manufacture of shoes he worked for different concerns. In 1879 he removed to Calaveras County and there followed mining and prospecting until 1889, when he located in Stockton, where he worked at the carpenter trade. He then spent eight years with the Street Railway Company in Stockton, after which he worked for his son, who was a member of the firm of The Fischer Marble and Tile Company, continuing with him for some years, until in 1920 he entered the employ of the park department of the street department of the city, and is now in charge of Liberty Park, a position he is filling acceptably and well.
Mr. Fischer owns a comfortable residence at 1314 East Sonora Street, where he resides with his family. He was married in Calaveras County, Cal., to Miss Mary R. Prince, a native of that county, a daughter of B.R. Prince, one of the early settlers of Calaveras County. Mr. Fischer was bereaved of his faithful wife in December, 1920, a woman who was much loved and deeply mourned by her family and friends. Their union had been blessed with two children, H.P. Fischer and Mrs. Ethel V. Wykoff, both residing in Stockton. Mr. Fischer is to all intents and purposes a native son, for California is the scene of his first recollections, as he came here a little child of two years, so practically all of his life has been passed within the borders of the Golden State. He is a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood. His religious affiliation is with the Episcopal Church and politically he is a Democrat.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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