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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: FISHER, E.C.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 21, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 368-369
E. C. FISHER, general farmer and stock-raiser in Poca District, Kanawha
County, W. Va., where he owns a farm of 140¼ acres, was born December 15,
1850, in Jackson County, Va., three-fourths of a mile west of his present
farm. His parents were Greenberry and Julietta Fisher, and of their nine
children, be and a sister, Mrs. Emma Belle Rose, of Charleston, are the only
ones residing in Kanawha County.
E. C. Fisher was educated in Jackson, Roane and Kanawha Counties, attending
the High School at Walton, in Roane County. For twelve years he taught
school and at the same time kept up an interest in farming, timbering,
milling and surveying, and for the past ten years has been concerned, with
his son, in a planing, saw and gristmill on Poca River, near Sissonville.
After marriage he settled first on a farm across the river from the one now
occupied, where he remained for four years and then came to his present
property where he has made many improvements. In addition to fencing 100
acres of his land, he has erected the substantial buildings in evidence, and
here carries on his agriculttiral operations with satisfying results. He has
been a Republican since casting his first vote, and gives hearty support to
the candidates of his party. Very appropriately his fellow citizens have
made him a school trustee.
Mr. Fisher married Miss Melissa Rose, who was born in Kanawha County and is a
daughter of William S. Rose, and they have the following children: Everett,
who is interested with his father in the milling business, resides at the
mill; he married Ella Wines and they have one daughter, Mary M. May, who is
the wife of Joseph Miller, lives in Poca District, and they have had seven
chldren, six of whom survive. Lloyd, who lives in Poca District, married a
Miss Eastys, and they have one son, Seebert. Irvin resides in Charleston.
William A. is in business at Detroit, Mich. Albert is employed in Charleston.
Myrna E. was educated in Kanawba county and also attended high school at
Ripley, Jackson County, and Marshall College in Huntingdon. She taught in the
cornmon schools four years and is now a stenographer in the employ of a law
firm in Charles-ton. Ruby and Delpha are residing at home. Mr. Fisher and
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a stockholder in
the Arbuckle Telephone Company.
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