California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

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


G. W. FISHER.  Was born in Ohio March 5, 1849. When he was two years old his parents moved to 
Indiana. When he was about nine years of age his parents died. At the age of fourteen he enlisted in 
the 12th Indiana Volunteer Cavalry as a private and served till the close of the war. He then went to 
Kansas and engaged in freighting from Atchison to Denver. In 1867 he went to Julesburg and freighted 
from there to Fort Laramie. At the end of a year he went to Laramie Plains and helped draw the logs 
for the first house in Laramie City. He then worked on the Union Pacific Railroad until the connection 
with the Central Pacific was made. He then went to Elko, Nevada, and freighted from there to White 
Pine and other points. In 1869 he came to California, locating at Calistoga. In March, 1870, he came to 
St. Helena and engaged in the butchering business, and shortly afterward opened a shop in 
connection with J. Bruce. In May, 1876, he bought his partner out, and is still conducting the business. 
He was married August 25, 1877, to Miss Emma Horton, a native of Wisconsin. They have had two 
children, both of whom are dead.