BIOGRAPHY: Peter S. FISHER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 218
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PETER S. FISHER, a representative business man and enterprising merchant of 
Johnstown, this county, is a son of Daniel and Dinah Fisher, and was born in 
Berlin, Somerset county, this State, June 2, 1851.
     His father was born in Germany in 1817, and was a member of a prominent and 
well-to-do family, many of whom were well educated and followed the profession 
of teaching. He learned the trade of a tailor in the Fatherland, and came to the 
United States in 1843, locating in Somerset county, where he resided until 1886, 
and when he came to Johnstown, and has resided there ever since in comparative 
retirement. Although he learned the trade of tailor, yet he never followed that 
craft, but pursued the arts of agriculture in Somerset county. In religious 
belief, he, as well as his wife, has always been a Lutheran. P. S. Fisher had 
the advantages of a good common-school training in the schools of Somerset 
county and the high schools of Berlin and Jenner Cross Roads, of the same 
county. He was then engaged for a time as a teacher.
     In 1872, just after attaining to his majority and seeking a more active 
field for his individual efforts, he came to Johnstown and secured employment 
from April until September of that year, in the bakery and confectionery 
business of Jacob Fend. In October of the same year he took a position with 
Voronickel & Co., in the wholesale liquor business, and two and a half years 
later succeeded them, and has conducted that line of business to the present 
time. He has been eminently successful as a business man, and ranks as one of 
the substantial and progressive citizens of Johnstown. Mr. Fisher does not 
confine his efforts exclusively to the mercantile business, but lends his 
influence to every move which has for its object the promotion of the good of 
the city. He is a director in the Johnstown Board of Trade, an organization 
through whose efforts much substantial good has come to the city; and is also a 
director of the Johnstown Telephone company and of the Johnstown Wall Paper 
company.
     Mr. Fisher has been twice married. His first union was in 1875, with Emma, 
daughter of Elijah Butler, of this county, and this union resulted in the birth 
of three children, two sons and one daughter: Carl, Grace and Curtis. His first 
wife died in 1884, and he married, as his second wife, in 1889, Laurena 
Wentroth, a daughter of J. D. Wentroth of Vintondale, this county.