Christian Fischer is one of the very successful and thrifty farmers and stock-raisers of the township of Ridott, and now owns 160 acres of well-improved land on section 23. His farm is on a good section of land in a desirable part of the township. Mr. Fischer came to the county in 1857, and located near Ridott, in this township. After some years of hard work, he was enabled, as the fruit of his industry, to purchase his present farm, on which he settled in 1861.
Mr. Fischer was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 7, 1818. His father, Adam Fischer, was a farmer, and lived and died in Bavaria, while his mother, Anna Hoeh, died in her native State of Germany, each at the age of sixty-three.
Our subject is the eldest of four children, three sons and one daughter. One of the former is now deceased, Mr. F'ischer was reared and married in his native State, where he had learned the trade of a weaver, which he followed for some years. He married Elizabeth Guth, born in Bavaria Oct. 16, 1822, and reared and educated in her native State. After the birth of six children to Mr. and Mrs. Christian Fischer, two of whom had died before leaving the old country, they together with their four remaining children came to this country, landing in New York in December, 1857, and coming direct to Illinois. The mother died at her home in this State, April 13, 1886, sixty-three years of age. Altogether, she was the mother of eight children, two having been born in this country. Of the children, Adam is married, and is a farmer in Ridott Township. Christian, named after his father, is married and also is a farmer in this township. Jacob is married and is a farmer in Silver Creek Township; Louisa and Fred reside at home; William, who is married, also lives on his father's farm. Mr. Fischer and family are members of the German Reformed Church. Mr. Fischer is a pronounced Democrat, of the uncompromising Andrew Jackson school.
Contributed by Karen Hammer
Portrait and Biographical Album of Stephenson County, Illinois Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1888 p. 730
