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FRED FISCH.
Fred Fisch, one of Vallejo's leading merchants, proprietor of a well appointed clothing store there and a well
established tailor, specializing in naval uniforms, is of European birth but has been a resident of the United
States since the days of his boyhood and of California for more than thirty years engaged in business at Vallejo
since 1897, and is thus thoroughly familiar with conditions here. Mr. Fisch was born on a farm in the Toki district
of the kingdom of Austria on October 25, 1872, and is a son of Bernard and Ida (Seuveter) Fisch, also natives of
that country, who spent all their lives there.
Though reared on a farm, Fred Fisch did not incline to farming as a vocation and upon leaving school became apprenticed
to the tailor's trade and before he was seventeen years of age had become a pretty well qualified cutter. It was
when he was seventeen that he came to the United States and became located at White Plains, New York, where he
became employed in a tailor shop. In 1894 he came to California and at San Francisco became employed at his trade,
the details of which by this time he had thoroughly mastered, and after awhile opened a tailoring establishment
of his own in Oakland, where he remained until in 1897, in which year he closed out his business in Oakland and
moved up the bay to Vallejo, where he opened a tailoring establishment at 311 Georgia street and started in business,
making a specialty of naval uniforms, a specialty he ever since has maintained, and is now regarded as the oldest
continuing manufacturer of high class naval uniforms in the state. In the meantime he also was developing a fine
business in the general clothing trade and men's furnishings and when in 1922 he and A. J. Higgins erected the
Fisch-Higgins block, a modern five story commercial and office building at 325 Georgia street, he occupied the
lower floor of this building with his store and tailoring establishment and has since been doing business at that
number, one of the best established merchants in the city.
In 1903, at Vallejo, Fred Fisch was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Dickinson of that city and they have two
daughters, Muriel and Dorothy. Mrs. Fisch is a native daughter of California, born in Grass Valley in Nevada county,
daughter of Asbury Stephen and Alice Dickinson, but was reared in Vallejo, to which city her parents moved with
their family when she was but a child. Mr. and Mrs. Fisch are republicans and take a proper interest in the general
civic and social affairs of their home town and of the community at large. Both are members of the local chapter
of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Fisch is a Scottish Rite (32°) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic
Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Aakmes temple at Oakland. He also is affiliated with the
local society of the Sciots, with the local lodges of the Knights of Fythias and the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks, with the local tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men and with the local branch of the Young Men's Christian
Association.
From:
History of Solano County, California
BY: Marguerite Hune
and
Napa County, California
BY: Harry Lawrence Gunn
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Chicago 1926
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