Brief Life History of William Nelson
When William Nelson Fisher was born on 9 May 1843, in Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, his father, Henry William Fisher, was 41 and his mother, Phebe Walter, was 33. He married Palmyra Almira Saddoris on 12 September 1869, in Lindina, Juneau, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States in 1920 and Lemonweir, Juneau, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. He died on 20 May 1931, in Mauston, Juneau, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Mauston, Juneau, Wisconsin, United States.
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- William N Tisher, "United States Census, 1930"
- Wm Nelson Fisher, "Wisconsin, Marriages, 1836-1930"
- William Nelson Fisher, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1858
Historical Boundaries 1858: Walla Walla, Washington Territory, United States 1858: Spokane, Washington Territory, United States 1860: Missoula, Washington Territory, United States 1863: Missoula, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Missoula, Montana Territory, United States 1889: Missoula, Montana, United States
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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