FRED C. FISHER is the owner and operator of a saloon in Porthill, where he is doing a prosper-ous busines at the present time. He also has numerous mining interests and owns a ranch south of Porthill.
Fred C. Fisher was born in Germany, in 1853, the son of Christian and Frederika Fisher, both natives of Germany. The father died when this son was five and the mother migrated with him and an older son to the United States when Fred was nine. They located in Illinois and there and in Wisconsin Fred received his educational training. After school days were over, he took up steamboating on the the Mississippi and later learned the stone mason's trade. This occupied him until he came west. In 1888 Mr. Fisher came to Portland and there he wrought until after the Spokane fire, when he went thither and did mason work in that city for some time In 1890, he came to the Kootenai valley and homesteaded land four miles south of Porthill. In 1892 Mr. Fisher went to Portland and did masonary work. Coming back to his ranch in the fall of 1895 he opened the International saloon in Porthill and has continued in this together with his mining and farming interests.
In 1887, while in Minnesota, Mr. Fisher married Miss Kate Bosl, a native of Germany, who came to the United States in 1881. Mr. Fisher has one brother, Ernest, a stone mason, living on a farm in Wisconsin.
– Page 975 “An Illustrated History of Northern Idaho, Embracing Nez Perce, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone Counties, Western Historical Publishing Company, 1903 “