Brief Life History of Russel Ray
When Russel Ray Fisher was born on 23 April 1916, in Inkom, Bannock, Idaho, United States, his father, Russel Fisher, was 28 and his mother, Clara Althea Anderson, was 26. He married Esther Zua Hunt on 25 December 1938. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949. He died on 24 November 1996, in Mountain Home, Elmore, Idaho, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Mountain Home, Elmore, Idaho, United States.
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Sources (16)
- Russell R Fisher, "United States 1950 Census"
- Russel Ray Fisher, "Idaho, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- R Ray Fisher, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1917 · Joining the First World War
Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
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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