Solomon Fisher
Solomon Fisher, father of Hiram Fisher, of Paint Township, was born in Virginia, in the year 1765, and removed to Westmoreland County, Penn., in 1771. In 1792-93 he attended a meeting to consider the Excise Law, then held in Pittsburg, Penn., presided over by Al- bert Galatin, who was born in Geneva, Switzerland, just four years before Mr. Fisher was born in Virginia. Daniel Bradford was Secretary of the meeting, at which a committee was appointed to draft resolutions expressive of their feelings, and present to Congress an address stating their objections and grievances of the law, and praying for its repeal. He then removed to Jefferson County, Ohio, near Steubenville, where he lived some ten or twelve years, when he emigrated to Paint Township, Wayne County, in 1814, and settled on the farm now owned by his son, Hiram where he died May 25, 1849. He voted for George Washington when he was elected to the Presidency of the United States the first time in 1788.
He had fourteen children, and was twice married, six of whom are living. His son, George Fisher, was one of the first teachers in the township. He was a farmer by occupation, an industrious, prosperous man, and at his death was possessed of considerable wealth. He took an active interest in local politics and was highly esteemed and respected by all who knew him. In 1794 he was in the Whisky Insurrection which broke out in the western part of Pennsylvania, involving four or five counties, which at first threatened serious consequences, but which by a union of firmness and lenity on the part of President Washington was soon quelled. His life was a long and checkered one, full of public and private experiences and bitter trials. He lived to see his anticipations grati- fied and a government established by the great Washington, whom by his own vote he aided in elevating to the highest honors of the new-born Republic.
Hiram, son of Solomon Fisher, was born in Paint Township, September 12, 1829, and is a farmer and man of business. He is alert, active, full of push-ahead-a-tiveness and allows no grass to grow under his feet. He executes his enterprises with reso- lution and determination; is a man of integrity, truth and unblemished character. He abounds in vitality and good humor, and is as full of genial good nature and hospitality as a June meadow is of flowers. He was married in January, 1856, to Mary E. Fleming, of Richland County, and has ten children.
From History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time, by Robert Douglass, 1878