Charles Fisher

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From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Charles Fisher, was born in Stockbridge, Mass., November 30, 1796, and came with his parents to Woodstock, Madison county, when he was two months old, and afterwards, in the year 1811, to Henrietta, Monroe county. In the year of 1814 he located permanently at Fisher's, in the town of Victor. He was among the earliest settlers here, and the place was named after him. He was justice of the peace for a term of years, postmaster, and entertained travelers until there was a hotel started in the place. He married twice, first July 29, 1821, Rebeckah Gaskell, of Victor. They had two sons and three daughters: Harriet; Charles, now of Newton, Kansas; Almira; Robert, an attorney of Victor village; and Mary R. Mrs. Fisher died September 7, 1848, and he married second Helen J. Pardee, on October 21, 1850. They had two sons, Henry P., born December 27, 1851, died June 25, 1893, who married Lucy E. Bushman, November 9, 1875, and had two children: Clara and Charles. William F. was born March 9, 1854; September 6, 1882, he married Addie C., daughter of Almon and Emily Preston, of Battle Creek, Mich. They have two sons, Almon P. and Henry S. Mr. Fisher was a produce dealer with his brother for some time, but is now farming on the old homestead. He is a member of Milner Lodge, No. 139, F. & A. M., Victor, and Excelsior Chapter, No. 164, R. A. M., Canandaigua.

Charles married Rebeckah Gaskell on 29 Jul 1821 in Ontario County, New York. Rebeckah was born on 19 Aug 1797; died on 7 Sep 1849 in Victor, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Boughton Hill Cemetery, Victor, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Helen Jane Pardee on 25 Oct 1850 in Mendon, Monroe County, New York. Helen was born in 1820 in Victor, Ontario County, New York; died in 1893 in Fishers, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Boughton Hill Cemetery, Victor, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: George Day. George was born on 4 May 1822 in New York; died on 3 Dec 1851 in Mendon, Monroe County, New York; was buried in Mendon Cemetery, Mendon, Monroe County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Almira married Robert Bruce Moore about 1852. Robert was born on 21 May 1819 in Victor, Ontario County, New York; died on 12 Apr 1895; was buried in Boughton Hill Cemetery, Victor, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adeline Charlotte Preston. Adeline was born in 1858; died in 1897; was buried in Boughton Hill Cemetery, Victor, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the HISTORY OF ONTARIO COUNTY; compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich; edited by George S. Conover; 1893;

Henry P. Fisher, Victor, was born at Fisher's, Victor, December 27, 1851. He was educated in the public schools, was a produce dealer for some time, and later a farmer. November 9, 1875, he married Lucy E., daughter of Abner and Phoebe P. (King) Bushman of East Mendon, and they had two children: Clara B. and Charles H. Mrs. Fisher's father, Abner Bushman, was born in Monroe county November 28, 1801, was a school teacher, farmer, and also justice of the peace for twenty years. He married twice, first to Jane Ely, and they had one daughter, Mrs. Bentley Corby, of Pittsford. April 14, 1849, he married second Phoebe F. King of Brighton, Monroe county, and they had seven children, three died in infancy, four survive: Hanford E.; Lucy E.; Clara M.; and Julia who died at the age of eight years. A branch of her family named Hopkins dates back to the Mayflower. His grandfather on his mother's side, Silas Pardee from Columbia county, was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, and Mrs. Fisher's great-grandfather, Rufus King, was in the Revolutionary War. Henry P. was a staunch Democrat. He died June 25, 1893.

Harriett married Tyler L. Squier in ca 1862 in Victor, Ontario County, New York. Tyler was born in 1836; died on 4 Nov 1918 in New York; was buried in Mendon Cemetery, Mendon, Monroe County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1900 living in Chicago

Mary married John Milton Hitchcock on 29 Oct 1889 in Victor, Ontario County, New York. John was born on 2 Sep 1833 in New York; died on 11 Feb 1912 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; was buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Bessie Ella Conover. Bessie was born on 19 Apr 1886 in Egypt, Monroe County, New York; died on 29 Dec 1955 in Fishers, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Boughton Hill Cemetery, Victor, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Lewis. William was born in 1855; died in 1919; was buried in Mendon Cemetery, Mendon, Monroe County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Ralph Bryant Grove on 13 Jul 1912 in Cook County, Illinois. Ralph was born on 26 Apr 1884; died in Jan 1971. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Faith married Lieutenant Richard Andre Peterson on 9 Apr 1917 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Richard was born on 6 Jan 1893 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; died on 4 Aug 1973; was buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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https://historicvalentownmuseum.org/page.php?page=jsheldonfisher

Sheldon, as he was known, was born in 1907 at the 1811 Fisher homestead in Fishers, the town named for the pioneer family.

In 1939 he met and married Lillian Lewis who was from a Virginia family transplanted to Missouri.

Like Sheldon, she was a history buff, enough so that they spent their 1939 honeymoon poking around New England graveyards and searching out family records.

In 1940 they purchased Valentown Hall at Victor, NY, which had been envisioned decades before as a major commercial complex of shops when a projected railroad was to bring the world to its porches. When the railroad project stalled, the building accommodated more localized uses, then went into decline. Now the young couple made it the center of their professional and family lives.

In 1944 the Fishers Family Collection was tranferred to Valentown and two years later the rudiments of the Valentown Museum were established, beginning to make room for the historical collection that was the fruit of the family's constant alertness to artifacts and documents that were often in peril. School children and others began to visit on guided tours and the Valentown historical mission became known more widely, gradually leading to important historical items being brought to their attention.

Along the way they were instrumental in founding the Victor Historical Society and the Perinton Historical Society, as well as several others in the area. Sheldon was active in Victor town affairs during the 1960s and was the first Ontario County Historian, 1960 - 66. In 1964 the important Seneca village site on Boughton Hill in Victor was designated as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of Interior, the first fruit of a campaign for its preservation and development begun by the Fishers in 1946.

The grateful Seneca Nation adopted Sheldon into the Heron Clan in August 1964, and the State of New York began purchases that led to the important historical site now at Ganondagan. Its public opening took place three centuries after the original site's destruction by the Marquis de Denonville.

Family/Spouse: Lillian Elizabeth Lewis. Lillian was born on 20 Feb 1912 in Springfield, Greene County, Missouri; died on 29 Sep 2008 in Victor, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Boughton Hill Cemetery, Victor, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Grace Phillips. Margaret (daughter of Charles Allen Phillips and Cora Esther Boughton) was born on 9 Dec 1916 in New York; died on 16 Oct 1980 in Victor, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Boughton Hill Cemetery, Victor, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]