Brief Life History of Irvin Frederick
When Irvin Frederick Fisher was born on 31 August 1864, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, John Fisher, was 22 and his mother, Josephine Rosetta Lyon, was 20. He married Lydia Eliza Jones on 25 April 1894, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in West Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1880 and World for about 5 years. He died on 10 December 1947, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Irvin Fredrick Fisher, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Legacy NFS Source: Irvin Fredrick Fisher - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Irvin Frederick Fisher
- Irvin St.Fisher, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
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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Letter from Irvin to Eliza 14 Nov 1890
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