Fisher, Alexander

Born: 1815-03-12 Franklin County, Pennsylvania

Died: 1891-12-18 Logan County, Illinois

Flourished: 1854-1860 Sangamon County, Illinois

At the age of twenty-five, Fisher moved with his parents and twelve siblings from Franklin County, Pennsylvania to Sangamon County, Illinois. In 1847, he married Elizabeth Hershey, and they settled in Wabash County, where Fisher was a farmer. Elizabeth died in 1853, and Fisher re-married the following year in Sangamon County to Ann Elizabeth Field. They settled in Williamsville, where Elizabeth died in 1858. The following year, Fisher re-married to Permelia Skinner and opened a general store in Williamsville. By 1865, he resided in Mt. Pulaski, where he was elected Judge of the Logan County Circuit Court.

John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 297; History of Sangamon County, Illinois (Chicago: Inter-State, 1881), 1058; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Wabash County, IL, 427; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Sangamon County, IL, 419; Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 13 July 1858, 3:3; The Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 21 September 1859, 3:3; Gravestone, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, IL.