Brief Life History of Lyle Avery
When Lyle Avery Fisher was born on 9 January 1892, in Ansonia, Shippen Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Lewis Fisher, was 30 and his mother, Jennis Avery, was 22. He married Maggie M. Wheeler on 7 May 1918. He lived in Shippen Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. He died in Wellsboro, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States, and was buried in Wellsboro Cemetery, Wellsboro, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Lyle A Fisher in household of George R Bishop, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lyle A Fischer - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Lyle A Fischer
- Lyle A Fisher, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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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