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_MAR: Sullivan {geni:about_me} P Lewis Fisher, druggist, Crawfordsville, was born November 28, 1852 in Aurora, Indiana. His father Peter Fisher was a native of Alsace France and came to America in 1840, and his mother Catharine Miller Fisher was born in Bavaria and came to America in 1847. Lewis attended school until twelve years old. In 1865, he came with his parents to Crawfordsville. Here he harbered for a time, then became clerk in the drug store of EJ Binford & Brother, with whom he stayed three years, then worked one year with James Patterson in the jewelry business. Leaving the jewelry, he returned to his former position in the drug store, remaining some ten years. Here he received a thorough and practical education in his branch of trade and being quite competent to manage business for himself, he became associated with JB Breaks Jr in the drug business. The partnership continued one and a half years when Mr Fisher became sole proprietor. He is now doing a trade of about $12,000 per year. Mr Fisher is yet a young man but has made a good start in the world by his own eiforts and should be encouraged. He is careful and proficient in his business and keeps emphatically the peoples store. He was married November 23, 1876, to Mary Sullivan, daughter of Daniel and Catharine (O'Conner) Sullivan. She was born November 9, 1854, in La Fayette Indiana. They have one child Walter G, born December 23 1878, in Crawfordsville. Both are Catholics. Mr Fisher owns his store, stock, and dwelling. http://books.google.com/books?id=2hgVAAAAYAAJ History of Montgomery County, Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and Other Authentic ... Sources By Hiram Williams Beckwith, P. S. Kennedy, Davidson, Thomas Fleming, Thomas Fleming Davidson |