When Alex Jessie Fischer was born on 3 October 1902, in Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States, his father, William Sanders Fischer, was 22 and his mother, Jessie Graham Shaffer, was 22. He married Nora Roddy on 5 May 1928, in Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Gannett, Blaine, Idaho, United States in 1935 and Gilmore Election Precinct, Lemhi, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 19 July 1960, in Hailey, Blaine, Idaho, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Hailey, Blaine, Idaho, United States.