My Genealogy Hound

WILLIAM FISHER, mine superintendent, post office White Ash, is a son of Thomas Fisher, and was born in Pitt township, this county, March 11, 1845. He was reared in Wilkinsburg, where he attended the public school and academy. When twelve years old he began work in a coal mine, earning, money to pay his way through Duff’s Commercial College, at Pittsburgh, and has ever since supported himself. In 1876 he became superintendent of mines for Armstrong, Dickson & Co., at Armstrong, and when they sold continued with their successors; when the mines became the property of the N. Y. & C. G. C. Co. he still remained as superintendent. May 16, 1867, Mr. Fisher married Susan M. Yourd, born in Penn township, daughter of Samuel Yourd, of Mansfield, this county, and they had eleven children, of whom eight are now living: Samuel Yourd, Ralph Henderson, Margeret Dickson, Allen Clark, William Hamilton, Sarah Olive, Frederick Ashley and Grace Virginia; Benjamin G., Harry and Mabel died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher and family are connected with the Presbyterian Church. He is a F. & A. M., a member of the R. A., and is a republican; has served as auditor, and is now enjoying his second term as justice of the peace.