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 • 500 Mormon handcart pioneers leave Iowa City and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.

1859


Age: 41y

1860


Age: 42y

residence


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 U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.

1862


Aug 25
Age: 44y
1862 • Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck delivers his Blood and Iron speech to the Prussian Landtag.
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1863


Age: 45y
1863 • After a 2-month siege, the French army of Bazaine takes Puebla, Mexico.

1864


Age: 46y
1864 • The judicial reform of Alexander II is launched in the Russian Empire.

1867


May
Age: 49y
1867 • The Strait Settlement of Singapore, formerly ruled from Calcutta, becomes a Crown Colony under the jurisdiction of the Colonial Office in London.

1868


Feb 3
Age: 50y

1870


Jun 15
Age: 52y
1870 Franco-Prussian War: Marshal François Achille Bazaine, commanding the French left wing, is forced by starvation to surrender the fortifications of Metz, ending the Siege of Metz.

1874


Mar
Age: 56y
1874 27Second Battle of Somorrostro (Third Carlist War): In a renewed attempt to raise the siege of Bilbao by Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano himself arrived with 27,000 men and 70 cannon. However in three days of fierce fighting, the Carlist General Joaquín Elío, with just 17,000 men, once again drove off the attack at nearby Somorrostro, and it was another six weeks before Serrano managed to relieve Bilbao.

1876


Age: 58y
1876 • The long-awaited First Symphony of Johannes Brahms is premiered at Karlsruhe under the baton of Otto Dessoff.

1879


Oct 22
Age: 61y
1879 • Colonel Ahmed Orabi forms the Egyptian Nationalist Party.

1894


Nov 8
Age: 76y
1894 • In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.

1894


Nov
1894 • Western countries give up their extraterritorial rights in Japan.

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