The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-25
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" HE Trenton Chamber of Com-
 merce has one woman member,
 ! Mrs. Harriet Fisher. The Nation. al Association of Manufacturers has one woman member, Mrs. Harriet Fisher.
 In some respects Mrs. Fisher Is the most remarkable woman in America
 She is head of business that was es- stablished long before she was born, a business that would seem to be alto gether outside of woman's sphere, yet she has made brilliant success of 1t. She makes anvils and vises. There is hardly a railroad in the United States that has not used the product of her foundry. The United States government has her anvils in its navy yards and on it's battleships. Every great manurac- turer of America knows her or knows of her. And. her influence Is not con- fined to America alone. She sells to China, to the Argentine, to every DOT ton of the world.
 Few women have had so much Of tragedy and trial crowded into their lives Few-very few-have triumphed as she has. Had she lived in an earlier age she would have been pictured by novelists and poets as an extraordinary | type of womankind Mrs. Fisher lives in a charming old Colonial home in East Hanover street, Trenton. When the house was built, 60 years ago, there was plenty or open space around it, but now 1t is hemmed in by less pretentious dwellings,. Less than a block away is one of the city busiest thoroughfares. Her home is iveritable treasure house. A lover of beautiful old furniture would go into frhapsodies over what he would hnd fi1ere. The walls are hung with pictures lsof men famous in business and in his tory. Here and there are portraits or gifts from princes and potentates, poets Aand painters Few persons nave wider aequaitnance the world over than this woman of Trenton. She IS pa trician to her finger tips, housewife of rare ability, and at the same time she is Americas leading foundry wom- an Every morning she leaves her Deau- tiful home, rides In her automobile 10 the Eagle Anvil works, puts on great apron that covers her from head to foot and superintends everything in con nection with her big establishment. There is nothing in connection with the making of anvils, vises or other pro- ducts of her works that she cannot oo as well as any man or her einpioy. She has learned every detail or her business and in an emergency can take the place of any one from the humblest laborer up to the highest paid me- chanic. The Eagle Anvil words is the oldest in America. It was established m lof3 by Mark Fisher, who invented the method of welding steel onto iron. In the nearly 70 years of it's existence the foundry never has had a strike, never has missed pavday. and never has been sued. Ameri- "a has reasons to know the Fisher fam iv. The two sons of Mark Fisher, Otis and Clark were educated in the Rensse laer Polytechnic at Troy, N. Y. Otis went into the union army ana was maJor of the Seventh cavalary when ne was killed It was in his honor that the his toric Fort Fisher in Virginia, was named | Clark Fisher went into the Navy. He . was chief engineer with the rank of cap | tain. He took part in the attack on Fort | Sumter, in the James river expedition 1 and saw other service in the Civil war. He and Admiral Dewey were great 1 friends. When he left the navy to take charge of the Eagle Anvil works he I ranked Dewey
 Clark Fisher loved the navy. and he gave it I'D with reluctance. taking charge of the anvil works as a matter of duty
 and not of desire. He was we'll past
 @ when he married. His wife-the iron woman of today-was born in Paines-
 vile, o. She comes of Puritan stock. She
 was very mucn younger thaH
 Fisher Today she is in early middle life.
 Clark Fisher was a charming. modest
 man. His closest friends were A. J. Cas-
 sat-. president of the Pennsylvania rail-
 road and Washington A. Roebling, the
 bridge builder.
 His young wife didn't like the idea of
 her husband being foundryman When
 he returned from the works with some
 of their grime on his hands she used to
 chide him, saying his father ran the place
 long enough that the old place was dirty
 and that she didn't like to see him ems
 gagged in such work. He used to smile
 and let the thing pass
 Before they had been married long Cap
 tain Fisher was stricken with erysipelas.
 The attack was terrible one. Against
 the protests of his physicians the young
 wife insisted upon acting as his nurse.