My Genealogy Hound

ADAM FISHER, a substantial farmer of Worcester, is a native of Lower Salford township, where he was born August 29, 1848. He acquired his early education by attending the schools of the vicinity in which he lived. He left school before reaching the twentieth year of his age. He then worked at home for his father, continuing to live on the homestead until he married and purchased it. He married Mary, daughter of Jesse Snyder, of Towamencin township, in February, 1881, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. John Kriebel, at the home of the wife’s father.

Mr. and Mrs. Fisher have had seven children: Jesse S., born in 1883; Edwin who died at the age of eleven months; John, who is twenty years of age and lives with his parents, and has been engaged in attending a business college in Philadelphia; Lydia, who is in her nineteenth year, and resides with her parents; Adam, who is thirteen years of age; Ada, who is ten years old, and Mary who died at the age of seven months.

The founder of the Fisher family in America was Adam Fisher, who came from Germany. Nothing is known of his ancestry except that he was the son of Jacob Fisher, and came to this country in 1836. After many adverse experiences he located in Pennsylvania, where he married Maria, daughter of George Heydrick, on, December 22, 1839. Their children were: Susanna, Mary and Adam, the last named the subject of this sketch.

Adam Fisher (father) was a carpet weaver by trade. He stopped at first in New York after landing in this country, where he found an old friend of his boyhood in Germany. This friend of his early days proved to be unreliable, and Mr. Fisher lost all of his hard earnings. Undaunted by this experience, Mr. Fisher kept diligently at work. He finally drifted to Pennsylvania, and found two of his old friends from the old country. They were John and Peter Coleman, of Upper Salford township. They gave him work, and he was not long in accumulating a fair share of this world’s goods. He continued to work at his trade as a weaver, and also did farm work, and as his savings grew purchased twenty-five acres of land, and then added to that until he owned forty-two acres, now the home of his son, where the father lived and died.

The Fisher family in Germany were very poor, and with little education to assist them, never kept any record of their ancestry. The subject of this sketch has tried for many years to trace the family genealogy in the old country, but without success. All that he has ascertained is that his father, Adam Fisher, came from Gilheim, Germany, stopped for a while in New York, and then journeyed to Pennsylvania, where he spent the remainder of his life. He had been a soldier for six years before emigrating from Germany. He was buried in the Schwenkfelder cemetery in Lower Salford township.

Mary (Heydrick) Fisher (mother) was the daughter of George Heydrick, of Lower Salford township. Mrs. Heydrick’s sisters are Susanna, wife of Isaac Kreibel, a farmer of Lower Salford; Mary, wife of John Clements, a retired farmer who lives in Lansdale.

Mrs. Fisher’s mother has two sisters, Hannah, wife of Reuben Kreibel (deceased), and Rachel, unmarried and living at West Point, at eighty-five years of age.

In politics, Mr. Fisher is a Republican. He is a member of the Schwenkfelder church, and a man highly esteemed in his community.