The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-14
HON. BEN FISHER DEAD.
He Expires Suddenly Of Apoplexy
at Martins Ferry,
WHERE He HADGONE Jon BUSINESS.
Tho Community Shocked by the I'm
expected News Yesterday Forenoon.
Particulars Of the Sad anu Awful
Occurrcncc..-A Sketch OF His Hon
orablc aud Distinguished Career.

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This community was shocked ycster-
day forenoon as it has not been for q
long time by the announcement that
Hon. benjamin Fisher had died sudden
ly at Martins Ferry. The earliest re-
ports were conflicting, the only point in
which they agreed being that Mr.. Fisher
had fallen in the street there and died
in few minutes. 1t was at first said
that he had slipped on the ice and
fallen, injuring himself SO seriously by
striking his head on stone that he
died without recovering consciousness,
but it was not very long until it was
learned that his death was due to
paralysis OF tho heart. ijIiSt
Mr.. Fisher went over to Martins
Ferry on the $50 train on the Terminal
to attend to some business. He walked
down Hanover street cautiously, and
passing several acquain tances, spoke to
them. At the corner OF Second street
he shook hands with James R. Shrodes,
who has known. him for thirty years.
Mr.. Shrodes said: Hello, here, Ben
How are your" To which Mr.. Fisher
replied: 81 am perfectly well; how are
you?"
After stopping minute, Mr.. Fisher
walked across the street, and when near
the pavement in front OF Louis
Schedules grocery, recled and fell to
the pavement, falling on his knee and
striking his forehead against the pave
ment, causing slight injury. He was
picked up by Larry Connell, Joseph
Porter and others, who were on the cor
ner at the time, and carried into
Scheehles store. He was laid on
pallet on the floor, and Drs B. O. Will.
liams and J. NJ. Blackboard summoned.
They soon arrived, but their services
were not needed, death having been in
Simultaneous. Mr.. Fisher did mot utter
word after he fell'and was dead by the
time he was carried into the store.
There was simply contortion OF the
muscles after he was picked up. The
men in the store rubbed him and did
everything in their power to restore
him TO consciousness, but to no avail.
At first 1t was supposed that Mr.. Fisher
mad slipped on the ice and fallen, but
this was not the case. The family was
notified by special messenger, the
telephone and telegraph being useless
on account OF the weather. Tho re-
mains were conveyed to links under
taking establishment, and after being
prepared for burial brought to Wheel
ING. IS,
A widow and six children survive Mr..
Fisher The children are W. B. Fisher
and Charles Fisher, of this city, and
FRED Fisher, Of Minneapolis, Mrs. D.
Carter List, Misses Mamie and Gertie
FISHER. The news OF the death OF the
husband and father struck the mem.
e!eTs Of the family with all tho
force Of thunderbolt. He had lett
home but little while before in his
wo1'cd good health. apparently, and
nothing was further from their minds
man the probability that he should be
brought back corpse. Tho scene when
'ae intelligence was impaired to his
Vile and children was affecting in tho
extreme. - -
When the report was first circulated
and 1t was circulated with tho rapid
Hy which seems to characterize all bad
nsws.it was hoped by all who heard it
1l'at There was some mistake, but later
reports confirmed the sad intelligence
una brought the particulars, as given
Alr. Fisher was born in Delaware
county,, Pennsylvania, in 1920. His
la'ner died while he was very Young,
ahd at the age Of twelve years no be.
gun 10 support himself by working in
n, nMl mills, and he thoroughly mustered
y. .Ae Ut Trade OF mailer. In 1915 ho came
!" W Wheeling in company with his half
.unto'iiers, tho Messrs. Norton, who were
.uC pioneer nail manufacturers TO come
~ W heelIng. Ho worked rs a mailer
.ete; and when twenty-five years Of
"so became n stockholdor in tho Bel
mont mil. During the war he man
S Sseu me Benwood mill, OF which his
P ptGither, L. NJ. Norton, was president.
beIe the war broke out, however, he
;m %t gone TO lronton, Ohio, and become
~ Interested in the Belleiont iron works.
y. winch he was for several years the
e ea;n He still held stock in that
lIIiI at the time Of his death, tho
o Messfs' Norton and no being the hold
v.s OF the majority Of the stock. He
w., Ias az aiso interested as a stakeholder in
+; Tue benTool mill while experimenting
H. IT, ana no held his interest there till
cn ne m me war, when he sold out to
svsu advantage, and for several years
IN %| - employed in responsible capacity
I" tne riverside mill. 5iIls
toni IN tS0S Mr.. Fisher purchased an in in,
h., 1ysi IN the Star Stove foundry, which
T Thu been n established in lSl0 by Mr..
r r~U.Gas u. Culbertson, and had in tile
i Sso,a IN which Mr.. Fisher became con-
Iis ss with it removed to The site it
s,r n ever since occupied on Market
er, sv,, Just north OF Seventeenth, and
,S Sscnqing through to Chapline, one OF
II, M1s y most valuable manufacturing sites
4e city, This had before been used