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| Name |
George Bisher [1, 2, 3] |
| Birth |
14 Nov 1828 [4, 5] |
| Born |
24 Nov 1828 |
Pennsylvania  [6] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Person ID |
I3558 |
Bishir Family | Samuel & Elizabeth Bisher |
| Last Modified |
10 Nov 2022 |
| Father |
Samuel Bisher, b. 28 Sep 1791, North Hampton County, Pennsylvania , d. 1 Nov 1867, Ross, Luzerne, Pennsylvania (Age 76 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Van Horn, b. 22 Apr 1801, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania , d. 13 Feb 1885, Pennsylvania (Age 83 years) |
| Married |
Bef 1819 [4, 6] |
| Family ID |
F1426 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- George was living in a boarding house(?) in Denison, Luzerne, PA in 1850. He was married by 1860 and living in Kingston, Luzerne, PA.
GEORGE BISHER, engineer at the Parrish Colliery, Plymouth. Among the early of Luzerne county may be mentioned the Bisher family. Samuel W. Bisher, the father of our subject, was born in 1791 in the State of New Jersey, and settled in Huntington township, this county, in 1824. He was married to Elizabeth VanHorn, who was born in 1801 at Bethlehem, Pa. They settled in this county at a very early period, being one of the pioneer families who were subjected to the hardships of those early times. Nine children were born to Samuel and Elizabeth Bisher, the subject of this sketch being the fourth, born November 24, 1828. He was educated in his native county; the facilities for learning at that time being limited, only those who could pay for tutorship were given instruction. George was reared on a farm, and at the age of nineteen began railroading, having taken a position as fireman on the Beaver Meadow Railroad. He fired for six months and was then given an engine to run. It was one of those early type engines without a cab, the engineer carrying an umbrella in stormy weather. The machine was run on wooden rails or a wooden track, with strap-iron nailed on the top surface for the purpose of protecting the wood from the iron wheels of the locomotive, which ran at the then tremendous speed of six miles per hour. Mr. Bisher remained on this line seven years, taking a position at the end of that time, in 1859, as engineer on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, which then extended from Scranton to Rupert, Pa. Here he remained two years, then taking charge of the engine that was used to transfer coal from Nos. 4 and 5 to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad below the Bull Run crossing. He ran this locomotive for six years, leaving the road at the end of that period, and taking charge of the hoisting engines at the Lance Colliery No. 11, where he handled the levers for thirteen years, having begun when the mine was first opened. Mr. Bisher then went to the Parrish Mines as breaker engineer, in which capacity he was employed for three years; at the end of that time he took charge of the fan engine, which position he has since occupied. He was married January 1, 1856, to Hannah J., daughter of Samuel and Huldah (Ives) Pringle, and four children have been born to this union, namely: Geraldine, Francis E., G. Pardee and Daisy. Mr. Bisher is a Republican in politics, and has for thirty-eight years been a member of the I.O.O.F. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church.
History of Luzerne County, Pa., by H.C. Bradsby, 1893
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