Brief Life History of Lloyd Wiegand
When Lloyd Wiegand Fisher was born on 27 June 1868, in Pleasant Mount, Mount Pleasant Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Rev. James Boorman Fisher, was 34 and his mother, Eveline Foster, was 33. He married Lena Sadie Fletcher on 6 June 1906, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Deposit, Deposit, Delaware, New York, United States in 1880. He died on 5 March 1934, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Lloyd W Fisher, "United States Census, 1930"
- Lloyd Fisher, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Lloyd W Fisher, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1878
Historical Boundaries: 1878: Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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