Robert E. Fisher

2 May 1872–26 March 1952 (Age 79)
Texas, United States

The Life Summary of Robert E.

When Robert E. Fisher was born on 2 May 1872, in Texas, United States, his father, James S Fisher, was 41 and his mother, Nancy Brantlett, was 41. He married Mary Etta Dodd in 1893, in Mason, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Caprock, Lea, New Mexico, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 1, Tom Green, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 26 March 1952, in San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Grit, Mason, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert E. Fisher
1872–1952
Mary Etta Dodd
1870–1926
Marriage: 1893
Minnie Illa Fisher
1894–
Evelyn Nancy Fisher
1900–1974
James Allen Fisher
1895–1946
Hensley E. Lee Fisher
1897–1951
Asa Eugene Fisher
1902–1959
Floyd Ora Fisher
1905–1951

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1893Mason, Texas, United States
    • Children

    (6)

    +1 More Child

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (8)

    +3 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
    Age 3
    In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
    1889
    Age 17
    Historical Boundaries: 1889: Mason, Texas, United States
    1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
    Age 22
    Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.

    Name Meaning

    English: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Fischer

    Sources (12)

    • Robert Fisher in entry for Asa Eugene Fisher, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
    • Robert E Fisher, "United States Census, 1940"
    • Bob Fisher in entry for Floyd Ora Fisher, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"

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