Tehama County Biographies

LA FAYETTE FISH

Transcribed by:  Wendy Sandino

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

LA FAYETTE FISH, a prominent and progressive farmer of Tehama County, is a 
native of New York, dating his birth November 21, 1827.  He is the second of 
five children born to P. William and Lois (Grover) Fish, both natives of 
Vermont.  The father died in 1854, and the mother survived until 1870.  When our 
subject was nine years of age the parents moved to the State of Michigan, and in 
1840 moved back to New York, settling in Genesee County.  In 1842 they went to 
Iowa, locating in Scott County, where our subject attended the public schools 
and completed his education at the select high school.  For two years following 
he taught school in Davenport, and in 1853 crossed the plains to Oregon, and in 
1854 came to California, locating at Yreka, where he engaged in mining.  In 1856 
he returned to the States, via Panama, remaining four years.  In 1860 he again 
crossed the plains to California, locating near Tehama, where he engaged in 
general farming and stock-raising, making a specialty of the latter.  In 1871 he 
located on his present farm of eighty acres, situated one mile north of Corning, 
in Tehama County.
            Mr. Fish was married in Hickory Grove, Iowa, November 18, 1858, to 
Miss Jennie Carter, and they have four children living: William A., Oren, who 
died July 14, 1867; Jennie M., Alfred R. and Grant C.
            Mr. Fish has always taken a warm interest in the cause of education, 
and in 1867 was appointed a Trustee of Tehama School District.  Politically 
Judge Fish is a Republican, and takes an active part in all the political issues 
of the day, having been in 1888 selected as one of the delegates from Tehama 
County to the Republican State Convention.
            In 1878 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and is still holding 
that office.  Judge Fish has served his district faithfully and honorably, and 
by his impartial administration of justice and legal ability, has acquired the 
confidence and respect of the people of Tehama County.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891