Dr. John J. Fisher, b. 1841 Missouri to Oregon
Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 208.
FISHER, DR. J. J., OF Portland, was born in Linn County, Missouri, in 1841, and went with his widowed mother to Tippecanoe, Indiana, in 1843.He enlisted in 1861, serving six months, and in 1862 again enlisted for thirty days to fight guerrillas in Kentucky.He engaged in teaching and the study of medicine, attending the Rush Medical College, Chicago.In 1869 he began practice at Iroquois, Illinois.From 1871 to 1880 he practiced at Central City, Nebraska, where he served as Coroner and member of the School Board.In 1880 he came to Oregon, and in 1883 embarked in the drug business in Albina.In 1888 he was elected to the legislature, and is now nominated again to that body.
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