When Eleazar Fisher was born on 26 September 1810, in Orange, Vermont, United States, his father, Jeremiah Fisher, was 45 and his mother, Sabra Tubbs, was 35. He married Chloe Clarintha Knight on 16 April 1837, in Williston, Chittenden, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Clinton Township, DeKalb, Illinois, United States in 1860. He died on 16 June 1913, in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, at the age of 102, and was buried in Sandwich, DeKalb, Illinois, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Historical Boundaries: 1834: Illinois, United States 1836: Winnebago, Illinois, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1837: DeKalb, Illinois, United States
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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