History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

              938 HISTORY OF AVINNEBAGO COUNTY.
W. I. Fisher has always been in the farming business and has been successful. His farm consists of 200 acres of land, most of which is in a high state of cultivation, with ten acres of fine timber land. He has been a resident of this township since 1866 and is a highly respected citizen. In politics Air. Fisher has always favored the Republican party, and has been honored by the majority of his neighbors and fellow citizens by election to public ofiice, which he has held at various times with credit to himself and the community at large. He served in the office of assessor of tlie township for many years, and has also been a member of the school board for some time; he was a director of the Utica Alutual Fire Insurance Company for six years, and in religious affiliations he and his wife are members of the Alethodist Episcopal church.
In 1884 Air. Fisher was united in marriage to Miss Marion AA^eb- ster, daughter of David and Ann (Gilmore) AVebster, of Utica. Mr. and Airs. Fisher are the parents of three children—Frank, Robert and Jessie.
Charles R. Fiss, who belongs to the younger class of energetic, enterprising and wide-awake business men of Oshkosh, AVisconsin, was born in that city on Alarch 24, 1876. He comes of German an¬ cestry, his parents, Charles and Mary Fiss, being natives of Ger¬ many. They emigrated from the fatherland in 1855 and settled in Oshkosh, where the father was engaged in the lumber trade many years and where he died in 1905 at the age of sixty-five. The mother now (1908) resides there.
The}'' had a family of eight children, of whom Charles R. is the fifth in order of birth. He was educated at St. Peter's School, of Oshkosh, and in a business college of Chicago. At the age of thirteen ^ years he began to work and learned the plumber's trade, being em- • ployed both in Chicago and in his home city from 1894 to 1898. Soon after the opening of the Spanish-American War in 1898 he enlisted as a private in Troop A, First Regiment Illinois Cavalry. He started for the front with his regiment, but at Chattanooga, Tennessee, was taken so seriously ill that he was unable to proceed farther, and was brought home to Oshkosh and was an invalid some four years. On finally regaining his health he went to Neshkora, and thence a little later to Berlin, AVisconsin. In 1903 he returned to Oshkosh and for nearly two years was employed as a salesman with the Buckstaff-Ed¬ wards Company.
In December, 1905, with Mr. Frederick C. Bills, whose sketch ap¬ pears elsewhere in this work, he formed a copartnership under the name of Fiss & Bills and engaged in the undertaking business now