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Last modified: November 2023
Created: February 1996

BORN:	February 2, 1890 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 1 21 22 27 15
DIED:	December 19, 1962 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona 15
BURIED:	All Saints Catholic Cemetery, Des Plaines, IL Find-a-grave
PARENTS:	Mary Hansan and Louis Fischer 1 21 22
MARRIAGE 1:	Louise Peterson (1896 Iowa-1985) in about 1916 1 27
MILITARY:	Fought in France in World War I. 1

George Fisher in Paris in 1918.

MARRIAGE 2:	Oleda Daisy Draper George's Arizona death record says his wife was Oleda. I have no other information.
RESIDENCES:	North Chicago, Illinois; 1239 S. 41 Ave in 1900; 1217 South Springfield Ln in 1910 1 21 22
	Chicago, Illinois; 1344 S. Granford? Ave in 1920 23
	California in about 1930. 1
	Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 1
NOTES:	He went to school in Dacada and stayed with his grandparents ("probably got into too much mischief in the city"). He fought in WW I in France. George Jr. fought in WW II with the Marine Corps in the Phillipines. He was captured at Bataan and endured the Death March and three and a half years captivity in Japanese prison camps. He was released when the atom bomb was used. He didn't like the German connotations of being a "Heine" and changed to the more anglicized version of Fisher. He and his mother Mary and daughter Margarite would often visit Jake and Pearl Hansan in Oshkosh and Frank Hansen's family in North Chicago. 1

SOURCES:	---People--- Much of their information was oral.
	1 Margarite Jonagan (Letters from 1978 and 1981)
	2 Lillian Burton
	---Key Records---
	11 1917 Draft Registration card for George Nicholas Fisher US WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 on Ancestry
	12 1942 Draft Registration card for George Nicholas Fisher US WWII Draft Registration Cards, 1942 on Ancestry
	13 1962 Obituary George Nicholas Fisher in the Chicago Tribune
	14 1962 Death Notice for George Nicholas Fisher in the Arizona Daily Star
	15 1962 Arizona Death Certificate of George Nicolas Fisher at Ancestry.com
	16 Social Security Death index at Ancestry.com
	---Census Records---
	21 1900 Census Illinois, Cook County, Chicago 41 Ave #1239; Fisher, Lewis 38, born Jan 1862 Ohio, married 12 years, parents from Germany, Machinist, owns home free of mortgage; Mary, wife, 32, born Oct. 1867 WI, 4 children 4 living, father from France, mother from Germany; Lewis, son, 11, born Jan. 1889 IL, at school; Georgie, son, 10, born Feb. 1890 IL, at school; Frank, son, 9, born May 1891 IL, at school; Joseph, son, 6, born June 1893 IL, at school; Hanson, Frank, B-in-law, 25, born July 1874 WI, machinist
	22 1910 Census Illinois, Cook County, Chicago South Springfield Ave #1217; Fisher, Louie 48 Ohio, married 22 years, parents from Germany, Patternmaker-Iron & Steel, owns home free of mortgage; Mary, wife, 42 WI, father from France, mother from Germany; Louis, son, 21 IL, Machinist-Iron works; Joseph, son, 20 IL, Tailor in Sample house; George, son, 18 IL, Electrician - out of work; Frank, son, 17 IL, Errand boy - out of work;
	23 1920 Census Illinois, Cook County, Chicago Ward 34 (Ancestry page 9) South Crawford Ave #1344, Fisher George N, 29, born in IL, father Ohio, mother WI, Forman, house is rented; Louise K, wife, 24, born in Iowa, parents from Germany and Austria; George N, son, 1 4/12 born in Wisconsin.
	24 1930 Census California, Los Angeles County, Long Beach East 11th Street #1182 1/2, Fisher Louise K. 34, Iowa, married at 21, parents from Germany, rent house $27.50; George N, son, 11 born in Wisconsin; Margarite L. daughter, 9, born in Illinois.
	25 1940 Census Illinois, Cook County, Chicago Magnolia Ave #5255, Louise K, head, 45, born in Iowa, telephone operator for the telephone company, house is rented; George N, son, 21 born in Illinois, attendant at gas station; Margarite, daughter, 19, born in Illinois;
	---Other Records---
	16 WWII Military InfoGeorge N Fisher, Jr., Marine, 1945 Freed from Fukuoka POW Camp #1 - Kashi (Pine Tree Camp) Kyushu Island - Japan Pacific POW roster "FISHER GEORGE Nicholas JR ""Bud""",PFC,310265,MAR,4th 3 Bn Hq,4/9/1942,IL,10/1/1945,601,Noto,,Hir-06B-Omine (Yamaguchi) 4th Marines Roster FISHER GEORGE N JR PFC 310265 Hq Co 3rd Bn Liberated in Japan Report on POW Camp #1, Fukuoka, Japan Camp description testimony, testimony, and more George Fisher's own report from mansell.com