S. C. Fisher

    S. C. Fisher, attorney at law, is a native of Warren County, Ohio, born August 10, 1821, and is the eldest of eight children, five of whom are yet living, born to Alfred and Elizabeth (Campbell) Fisher, natives respectively of North and South Carolina and of English descent. The fall of 1831, the family emigrated westward, and Mrs. Fisher having relatives in fountain County, they located near Attica and passed the winter there. During this time, Mr. Fisher crossed the river to Warren County and entered 160 acres of Government land in Adams Township. April 6, 1832, they located on this property, and here Mrs. Fisher died in 1856. Mr. Fisher was next married in 1858, to Mrs. Abigail (Odle) Kidney, and lived on the land he entered for over fifty years. He died February 20, 1883, from the effects of a fall on the ice.

    S. C. Fisher lived in Warren County to manhood; was married in 1854, to Miss Amanda L. Sewell, and from that time until the breaking-out of the war, was engaged in merchandising in Pine Village, his being the first dry goods store opened at that place.

    September 7, 1861, he enrolled his name as private in Company H, Tenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and on the 17th was mustered into service. He served as private and as non-commissioned officer until July 17, 1863, when he was promoted over three ranking officer to the Captaincy of Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for meritorious conduct. Six weeks after this he was promoted Post Commissary at Tazewell in Eastern Tennessee; January, 1864, he was advanced to the position of Chief Commissary of the Department; the fall of 1864, he was discharged, his term of service having expired.

    Mr. Fisher served in eleven pitched battles, among them being Shiloh, Perryville, Fishing Creek and Fort Donelson, and was three times wounded. For a few years after the war, he traveled for his health, but in 1869 settled down in Williamsport and has since been engaged in legal pursuits.

    He is a Republican, and in Masonry is one of the first twelve men who took the thirty-second degree at New Albany, Indiana, in 1868. He is a Camp Degree Odd fellow and a member of the G. A. R. He and wife never having had children born to the, have adopted one child, Ella -whom they have reared to womanhood.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.