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    3. Fisher John T. Fisher my GG grandfather Dr. Frank Crist Fisher m. Cora Haefer Bloomington, IL Lillie Fisher married to Charles H. Freeman Bloomington, IL Charles Freeman owned a jewelry store in Bloomington. George Roy Fisher Charles Victor Fisher Frances R. Fisher >From "History of McLean County, 1924" Dr. Frank Crist Fisher, widely known physician and surgeon of Bloomington, is a member of an old and honored pioneer family of Illinois. He was born at Wilmington, Ill., Nov. 23, 1868, and is the son of John C. and Anna F. (Ford) Fisher. John C. Fisher was a native of Rochester, N.Y., and his wife was born at Fermoy, Ireland. In 1839 the Fishers came to Illinois and located at Wilmington in Will County, where John C. Fisher engaged in flour milling until 1883, when the mills were destroyed by fire. He then removed his family to Bloomington in 1888 and engaged in the grain and flour commission business until the time of his death, Aug. 18, 1912. His wife died June 20, 1892, and they are both buried at Wilmington, Ill. To Mr. and Mrs. Fisher were born the following children: John T., deceased; Mrs. C. H. Freeman, lives at Tampa, Fla.; George R., deceased; Mary C., deceased; Frank Crist, the subject of this sketch; Charles V., deceased; and Frances R. Fisher, lives in Bloomington. Dr. Frank Crist Fisher was reared in Wilmington, Ill., and his early education was received in the public and high schools there. He was then employed as stenographer and buyer for the J. F. Humphreys & Co., wholesale grocers of Bloomington, from 1891 until 1899. He then entered the College of Medicine, University of Illinois, at Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1903. Dr. Fisher practiced his profession at Joliet, Ill., from 1903 until 1907, and since that time has been located in Bloomington, where he has established an excellent practice. His offices are located at 217 North Main Street. One June 27, 1894, Dr. Fisher was united in marriage at Bloomington, with Miss Cora Haefer, a a native of Bloomington and the daugher of Napoleon B. and Elizabeth S. (Clark) Haefer, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Kentucky. Mr. Haefer died July 10, 1898, and his wife died Nov. 21, 1894. Dr. and Mrs. Fisher have had two children: Dorothy Elizabeth, who died in 1919; and Edwin Haefer Fisher, now a student. -- John Fisher chiefcd6@mac.com

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