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John Fischer (son of Joseph Fischer)153, 154 was born 1863 in Vienna, Austria155, 156, and died October 22, 1932 in Eau CLaire, Wisconsin157, 158. He married Emilia Kuehn, daughter of ? Kuehn.

 Includes NotesNotes for John Fischer:
[Kosmo Family.FTW]

My grandfather was born and grew up in Vienna, Austria, wrote Virginia Fischer Kosmo. Inasmuch as he was the second son his older brother Joseph was heir to the family shoe business. Instead of learning the family trade John was apprenticed to a harness maker.

John Fischer was a tall (over 6'), thin man with dark hair and steel blue eyes.
In the 1880s he came to America to live with family friends in Chicago. He went there with the promise of work. Once there he found too many immigrants to fill the jobs; so, he went north to the German settlement in Milwaukee, WI. There friends told him of the boom towns in the lumber country of northern Wisconsin.

Eau Claire, WI was the lumbering mecca at that time and was home to many Germans and Austrians so John settled there. After a period of time in Eau Claire he decided to open his own business. He rented a piece of land on North Barstow St. in downtown Eau Claire for his first harnesss shop. Later he bought property on Galloway St. During that time he met and married Amelia Kuehn from Fall Creek, WI. Her family had come to Wisconsin from Germany and many relatives had settled on farms in the Fall Creek and Augusta area. John and Amelia had two sons, John Edward and Ernest Ewald. The boys began working at the shop at about eight years of age because their rigid father believed everyone should learn a trade and "the earlier the better."

Children of John Fischer and Emilia Kuehn are:
  1. +Ernest Ewald Fischer, b. September 05, 1890, Eau CLaire, Wisconsin159, 160, d. May 09, 1950, Eau CLaire, Wisconsin161, 162.
  2. +Edward John Fischer, b. July 15, 1889, Eau Claire, WI, d. December 11, 1958, Eau Claire, WI.
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