6.. Harry Hutchins Fisher was born at Wheaton, Illinois on September 06, 1866 and died===============================================================
at Los Angeles, California on February 27, 1940. He was the son of 12. Earl Webster
Fisher and 13. Elizabeth Hutchins Hutchins. He married
7. Mary Rebecca Adams at Chicago, Illinois on June 10, 1891. She was born at Chicago
on April 22, 1866 and died at Los Angeles, California.on September 2, 1949. She was a
daughter of 14. George Washington Adams and 15. Sarah Elizabeth Williams..Children of Harry Fisher and Mary Adams are:
i. Margaret Adams Fisher, born at Chicago, Illinois on July 06, 1892 and
died at Pomona, California on October 04, 1972.
ii. Harry Hutchins Fisher, Jr. born at Chicago, Illinois in 1894 and died
at Los Angeles, California in 1987.
iii. Dorothy Adams Fisher, born July 17.1896
iv. Kathryn Fisher, born February 27, 1900 died at 3 mons.Next Page iii3
H. H. Fisher was born at Wheaton in 1866, attended public schools
until 1878, he then became associated in business with his father who was
a commission agent in Chicago.
In 1891, Mary Rebecca Adams and Harry Hutchins Fisher were married
in the Adam's home at 2716 Calumet Avenue in Chicago; they resided
there for 10 years.
George Washington Adams, father of the bride, died less than four months
before the wedding.
In 1901 he joined Mary Rebecca's brother-in-law, Rolland Morrill, in a very large agricultural undertaking near Jacksonville in East Texas. They were a part of a corporation of well-known capitalists who were developing a 9000 acre peach orchard, the largest in the world. The farm was so large that a small town was established on it to serve the managers and workers. Four miles of the Cotton Belt RR ran through the property. The railway established a station of its own with an express, freight and telegraph service. Morrill and others were experienced producers and distributors; seedlings were being raised on the Morrill home farm in Michigan then shipped to the Texas farm by the Cotton Belt RR. The land was purchased from the State of Texas. It had previously been cleared and was being used as cattle range. It was considered excellent soil for vegetable crops and peaches. In between the rows of peach tree rows a variety of vegetable were harvested during the first three years.
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.Stories my Mother told me about those days in Texas made it
seem an exciting time. She was nine years old when the family went
there to live. One of the things she told about was taking
the train to boarding school. She often spoke of Tyler, so perhaps
that was where the school was. Harry Jr. was seven and Dorothy was five;
I don't recall if they all went to this school. She recalled that the farm
used convict labor. She remembered hearing the baying of the hounds at
night during a chase to find escaping prisoners For years after
returning from Texas we frequently heard tales of the good old days on
the farm in Texas. The land had been a part of the Texas penitentiary
system where convicts were used to clear the land.. Misfortune thwarted
the company's plans, however. Three successive years of heavy
frost put an end to the project and their dreams. This created a financial
disaster and bankrupted some of the partners.
November 30, l906 Earl Webster Fisher died, shortly there after the
Harry Fisher family returned north and made their home in Wheaton. across
the street from his parent's home and where H.H. Fisher was born and had
grown up.
A few years later my grandparents moved to Los Angeles and settled
not far from where we lived. He died in 1940, he was 74.
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