Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-05-20
De a,n ot mr. William Fisher.

From the Victoria (B. O Colonist of
 May s, 1891, we copy the following mo-
 tice of the death of Mir. Wm. Fisher,
 father of our townsman J. l.. Fisher:
 "For some months past, Mir. William
 Fisher. ol the Fort, Esquimalt, has been seriously i'll, his friends being extremely anxious as to his condition. He was laterly removed to Fern Hill, Esquimalt road, the residence of his son-in-law,
 Hon. 0. K. Pooley, .. O., where he expired last night. the immediate cause ot death being weakening of the action of the heart. Mir. Fisher was the eld- est son of Mir. William Fisher, of the l County of Cumberland, England, and claimed descent from brother of Bish- op Fisher, of Rochester, who was exc cuted during the reign of Henry VIII. He was born March 10, 1SIl, and, on leaving school, served his apprentice | ship with Aid. J. N. Woods, ot Liver pool, acquiring the freedom of that bor- | ough and obtaining, later on, that of the respective cities of Bristol, Wexford and Waterford. He entered in 1892 the influential firm of William Fisher < Son. of Liverpool, as junior partner. The fl m owned the Quebec and Mon- treal line of steamers which was super ceded by the well known Allan line. In lS4S he was elected to the Liverpool town council, becoming a member of the Liverpool Dock committee (now the Mersey Harbor Board) in lS49. He served upon the Poor Law Commission for q number of years, was director of several insurance companies. mem- Der of Lloyd's committee for the classi- ficatiou of shipping, of the committee of the Ship Owners Association, of the Ship Building Comm tee, in addition to which he was prominently connected with a nnmber of philanthrop'c, liera- ", and other institutions. He first arrived m British Columbia in 1860, being a delegate 10 England in the year succeeding, with ti object of securing Imperial aid and mail subsidy for inn proved postal communication. He re- turned to British columbia in 1863 and settled in Esquimalt. He was a mem- Der of the committee (aided by Cover nor Kennedy for exploring Vancouver val. l., sNft ,E cation of. Esquimalt and Crsigfower; c road commissioner, etc. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1871 for the representation of Esquimalt in the Pro- vincial Legislature, to which he was re- turned at the general election of 1874, he and his colleague, MT. F. Williams, defeating their opponents, Messrs. Rob ert Weir and Dr. Foster. Mir Fisher had considerable ability as public man and as citizen, his sttsinments gaining for him a very considerable amount of respect and confidence. He served for many years as J. P. at Es- qu malt, bis decisions, prticularly on shipping matters, being in almost all cases upheld. In lS44 he married the second daughter of John Birch, lead ing cotton spinner of Manchester, among the surviving members of his family being Mir. John Lloyd Fisher, g merchant of Prose tt, Arizona, MT. I. B. Fisher, manager of the Bank of British Columbia at New Westminster, and Mrs. Pooley, wife of Hon. c. E. Pooley. The funeral will take place on Thurs day at o'clock, from the residence of Mir. fouley Alter services at Esqu1- malt tee body will he inferred st Rose Bay cemetery"