When Jonathan Coleman Fisher was born on 13 September 1839, in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Fisher, was 26 and his mother, Mary Ann Woodland, was 26. He married Betsy Jane Bateman on 12 May 1869, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Neola Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1900 and United States in 1906. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 7 February 1906, in Neola, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Neola Township Cemetery, Neola, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
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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 .
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