John A. Fisher
John A. Fisher, who is now serving his second term as president of the board of county commissioners of Jefferson County, Ohio, was born in July, 1860, in Steubenville, O., where for many years he was engaged in conducting a grocery and market. He is a son of Jacob M. Fisher, who was born in July, 1836, in Steubenville. where he was for many years concerned in manufacturing and also in the mercantile business, and died here in July, 1909.
John A. Fisher grew to manhood and was educated at Steubenville, where, after clerking some time in a grocery store, he opened a meat market, which he conducted successfully for over twenty years. He was engaged in the grocery and market business at the time of his election to the board of county commissioners in the fall of 1905, first taking office in September, 1906, and was re-elected in 1908, and is now serving his second term as president of the board. During the nineties he served four years as coroner of Jefferson County, having always taken a more or less active interest in politics. Mr. Fisher is a member of the Finley M. E. Church, of which he was for more than twenty years superintendent of the Sabbath-school, and is fraternally affiliated with the Masonic order at Steubenville, O.
Mr. Fisher was first married to Miss Cora G. McNeal. a daughter of A. R. McNeal, who died in 1900, leaving three sons: George E., of Steubenville; J. Donald, who is in the employ of the U. S. Glass Company, of Pittsburgh; and John A. Mr. Fisher formed a second union with Miss Cora H. Clifton, a daughter of O. P. Clifton, who died January 9, 1909, and to them were born: Leone C, Olive Daisy, and Helen Virginia.
From 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910