Person:Marcus Fisher (1)

Excerpted from the Citizen newspaper, Thursday, July 5, 1888

8:30 am Wednesday, July 4Marcus J. Fisher lost nearly all of the fingers on the right hand after lighting a huge Dynamite fire cracker. He is 30 years old and is a nephew of Mrs. Phoebe Fisher, Proprietor of Fishers Bakery and he is a driver in her employ. He had lit the fuse, but it did not go off. As he picked up the firecracker to relight it, it went off. Marcus lost the middle finger and thumb and the index finger to the first joint. George Fisher, his younger brother, was standing behind Marcus when the fire cracker went off. He received a cloud of flame and powder in his face. A piece of paper stuck him in the neck, making a deep and painful, though not necessarily serious wound.

From the 1860 census

Fisher, Deloss or Delos (his uncle) Phoebe (his aunt) Age: 48 Birthplace: NY [Yates Co] State: Michigan County: JACKSON Locale: 4-WD JACKSON Page: 131

1870 Census Fisher, Delos Age: 58 Birthplace: NY State: Michigan County: JACKSON Locale: 4-WD JACKSON Page: 244A

Delos Fisher male b. 1812 NY married in 1836 Phebe L. Hobart b. 1818 NY Name: Phebe L. Hobart Birth: 14 JUN 1818 Father: Israel Hobart b: 4 MAY 1785 Mother: Mary S. Card b: 28 AUG 1788 in Block Island, Newport, Rhode Island

Hobarts - Phelps, Ontario, NY 1820

             Italy, Yates, New York 1830
             Jackson, Jackson, Michigan 1840

From the Jackson City and County Directories

1875Delos Fisherbaker res 31 Mechanic Bakeries: H.D. Fisher 211 Main

1887 -Marcus J Fisherdriver I N Branch bds Park House 1890Phoebe L Fisher(wid Delos) res 118 W Morrell

1891 -Marcus J Fisherbaker I N Branch bds 224 W Main 1892

1915 -Marcus J Fisher(Ada E.) slsmn I N Branch res 310 W Mason 1916

1925Marcus J Fisher(Ada) meter rdr Consumers Power Co h 216 W Mason

I N Branch is the "Old Fishers Bakery, 103 West Main Street"

In 1886, the bakery placed an ad in the Jackson High School yearbook, "The Reflector." It was sold in 1888.

Evidently, Marcus remarried after Anna's death to a lady named Ada.

Marcus' headstone is missing from the cemetery, but the city records (3X5 cards located at Woodland, the other city cemetery on Francis Road) shows him buried next to his wife, Anna Mariah. His death information comes from the card.

1. ↑ not in 4th ward Jackson, try Naples, Ontario, New York 337 maybe