When Lola Monta Fisher was born on 24 August 1864, in New Canton, Pike, Illinois, United States, her father, John Allen Fisher, was 22 and her mother, Melissa Emaline Wallace, was 21. She married Thomas Jackson Taylor on 18 July 1883, in Carroll, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Township of Pleasant Vale, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Yukon Township, Canadian, Oklahoma, United States in 1900. She died on 27 April 1944, in Yukon, Canadian, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Yukon, Canadian, Oklahoma, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1869: Pike, Illinois, United States
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
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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