James Maurice Fisher

Male15 July 1921–28 December 1999

Brief Life History of James Maurice

When James Maurice Fisher was born on 15 July 1921, in Williamsport, Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Leonard Hirst Fisher, was 23 and his mother, Emma Louise Britton, was 20. He lived in Williamsport, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. He died on 28 December 1999, in Ocala, Marion, Florida, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, Ocala, Marion, Florida, United States.

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James Maurice Fisher
1921–1999
Doris Evelyn Bair
1921–1994

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  • James M Fisher, "United States 1950 Census"
  • James M Fisher, "Find A Grave Index"
  • James Fisher in entry for Mrs Doris E Fisher, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Age 2

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1941 · Florida Involvement in World War II

Age 20

Similar to the first World War, Florida's location and temperature served as an ideal location for military training; in fact, Florida would end up having 172 military installations. As a result of World War II growth, Camp Blanding became the fourth largest city in Florida, capable of housing over 55,000 soldiers. Many Floridians sacrificed their lives among other Americans to win the war; it's estimated that about 3,000 U.S. deaths were from Floridian troops.

1942 · The Japanese American internment

Age 21

Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.

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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