Robert Fisher

Male20 June 1908–7 January 1988

Brief Life History of Robert

When Robert Fisher was born on 20 June 1908, in Crawford, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Edmund James Fisher, was 45 and his mother, Anna Francis Vanous, was 33. He had at least 1 son with Loretta Irene Klema. He lived in Eastman, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States for about 30 years. He died on 7 January 1988, in Prairie du Chien, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 79.

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Robert Fisher
1908–1988
Loretta Irene Klema
1920–2017
Billy Fisher

Sources (4)

  • Robert Fisher in household of Anna Fisher, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Robert Fisher - Government record: birth-name: Robert Fisher
  • Robert Fisher, "United States Census, 1940"

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World Events (8)

1909 · The NAACP is formed

Age 1

Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.

1919 · Minimum Wage Laws Passed

Age 11

The first minimum wage law took effect in 1919 and specified women and children under 17 years of age should be paid 22 cents per hour.

1929

Age 21

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

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.

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