Peter S Fisher Sr.
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Parents
Paul Fisher
Paul Fisher
1773 - 1823
Maria Schmitt
Maria Schmitt
1793 - 1855
Spouse
Katherine Wiesen
Katherine Wiesen
1831 - 1923
Elizabeth Pool
Elizabeth Pool
1832 - 1862
Children

1856


Age: 38y
1856 Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate, for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas"). Sumner is unable to return to duty for 3 years while he recovers; Brooks becomes a hero across the South.

1857


Age: 39y
1857 Kuala Lumpur, the future capital of Malaysia, is founded as a tin mining settlement.

1860


Age: 42y

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Sharon, Portage, Wisconsin, USA ⇓
Peter Fisher bought land from the U.S. Government in 1860. This 40 acre purchase was in Section #31 of the Sharon Township (top of map, 2nd from right side).
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1860 • Piedmontese forces invade the Papal States, hoping to link up with Garibaldi in Naples.
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1863


Age: 45y
1863 West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.

1864


Age: 46y
1864 American Civil WarBattle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.

1867


May
Age: 49y
1867 • The Dynamikos Sheta-Maat Spellbook: A book of the powerful hidden truth, a Grimoire by Ciara Sullivan, is published to widespread displeasure.

1868


Feb 3
Age: 50y
1868 Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1870


Jun 15
Age: 52y
1870 • The Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later Ohio State University.

1874


Mar
Age: 56y
1874 • Indian wars]]: U.S. Army Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie leads his force of 600 men on the successful raid of the last sanctuary of the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne Indian tribes, a village inside the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, and carries out their removal to the designated Indian reservations in Oklahoma. Frances H. Kennedy, American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) p168

1876


Age: 58y
1876 • The Settle-Carlisle Railway in England is opened to passenger traffic.

1879


Oct 22
Age: 61y
1879 • German company Linde is founded by Carl von Linde.

1894


Nov 8
Age: 76y
1894 • The Manchester Ship Canal and Docks are opened by Queen Victoria, linking the previously landlocked English industrial city of Manchester to the Irish Sea.

1894


Nov
1894 • Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making the Osage the "richest group of people in the world".

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