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Conrad Beauregard “Captain Cooney” Fischer

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Conrad Beauregard “Captain Cooney” Fischer

Birth
Carrollton, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
6 Sep 1937 (aged 75)
Louisiana, USA
Burial
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Old Plan Plot #129 - Fischer (between Road, Birch Street, Hillary Street and Green Street http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/cemeteries/carroll/00000005.txt)
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Married: Cornelia "Elizabeth" Hoey, 11 Aug 1884, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana


Name: Conrad Beauregard FISCHER Sex: M Birth: 8 DEC 1861 in Carrolton, Jefferson Parish, LA Death: 6 SEP 1937 in New Orleans, LA Fact 1: lived at 910 South Carrolton Avenue, New Orleans Fact 2: known to MS river men as "Captain Cooney" Fact 3: Piloted the biggest raft known in MS River : history...consisting of 2009 Cypress trees, which when processed, produced approximately ,000,000 board feet of lumber. Attended Professor Lusher's school and Soule Business College. Built Fischer Lumber Company, possibly the largest lumber mill in the south.

C.B. Fischer was also the Fire Commissioner for the 7th Municipal District. Source: History of the New Orleans Fire Dept., edited by Thomas O'Connor, 1895, p.: 450, 557
Married: Cornelia "Elizabeth" Hoey, 11 Aug 1884, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana


Name: Conrad Beauregard FISCHER Sex: M Birth: 8 DEC 1861 in Carrolton, Jefferson Parish, LA Death: 6 SEP 1937 in New Orleans, LA Fact 1: lived at 910 South Carrolton Avenue, New Orleans Fact 2: known to MS river men as "Captain Cooney" Fact 3: Piloted the biggest raft known in MS River : history...consisting of 2009 Cypress trees, which when processed, produced approximately ,000,000 board feet of lumber. Attended Professor Lusher's school and Soule Business College. Built Fischer Lumber Company, possibly the largest lumber mill in the south.

C.B. Fischer was also the Fire Commissioner for the 7th Municipal District. Source: History of the New Orleans Fire Dept., edited by Thomas O'Connor, 1895, p.: 450, 557


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