From: Bryant family history: ancestry and descendants of David Bryant (1756) of Springfield, N.J., Washington Co., Pa., Knox Co., Ohio - Page 94
Nancy Bryant came to Indiana with her parents in 1935, when the settlements were very few. Her mother died at Pleasant Grove, Lake County, and was buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery (today Lowell Cemetery). At this time Nancy was a child of only ten years, and with her brother Isaac was placed in school by her father in Wellsburg, Virginia, where they lived in the home of Dr. Grafton, a son-in-law of Joseph Bryant. After about a year their father married Margaret Stainbrook, in Illinois, and he brought them back to their western home. In 1849 her stepmother died, and Nancy was left with the care of six brothers, the youngest a mere babe. She filled the position of sister and mother to her brothers until her marriage.
In 1854 Mr. William Fisher wedded this noble young woman who has proved his devoted companion and effective helpmeet during the long intervening years. They began their married life or. a farm in Lake County, where, sustained by mutual affection and sympathy, and by common aims and ambitions, they toiled early and late, in order that they might gain the goal of definite independence and prosperity. With the passing of years, they accumulated one of the valuable landed estates of Lake County, and the same still remains in their possession.
They remained on this homestead until 1884, when they removed to Hebron, Porter County, Indiana, where they have since resided, and have a secure place in popular confidence and venerating esteem. Soon after establishing residence in Hebron, Mr. Fisher engaged in the hardware business and later he turned his attention to the dry-goods business, in which he continued active operations until 1894, when he disposed of the stock and business, after having been one of the leading merchants of the town for a full decade. Later he here established the private banking institution which was later transformed into the present Citizens State Bank, of which he is president and of which his daughter Ida is cashier, the institution being one whose success is based alike on careful and conservative management and ample capitalistic reinforcement. Miss Fisher became cashier of the original private bank and has continued her effective services under the present regime, with the result that she is known as an especially able and discriminating businesswoman and as the effective coadjutor of her honored father, who has attained the patriarchal age of eighty-seven years (1912) and whose life has been one to offer both lesson and inspiration.
From: Bryant family history: ancestry and descendants of David Bryant (1756) of Springfield, N.J., Washington Co., Pa., Knox Co., Ohio - Page 94
Nancy Bryant came to Indiana with her parents in 1935, when the settlements were very few. Her mother died at Pleasant Grove, Lake County, and was buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery (today Lowell Cemetery). At this time Nancy was a child of only ten years, and with her brother Isaac was placed in school by her father in Wellsburg, Virginia, where they lived in the home of Dr. Grafton, a son-in-law of Joseph Bryant. After about a year their father married Margaret Stainbrook, in Illinois, and he brought them back to their western home. In 1849 her stepmother died, and Nancy was left with the care of six brothers, the youngest a mere babe. She filled the position of sister and mother to her brothers until her marriage.
In 1854 Mr. William Fisher wedded this noble young woman who has proved his devoted companion and effective helpmeet during the long intervening years. They began their married life or. a farm in Lake County, where, sustained by mutual affection and sympathy, and by common aims and ambitions, they toiled early and late, in order that they might gain the goal of definite independence and prosperity. With the passing of years, they accumulated one of the valuable landed estates of Lake County, and the same still remains in their possession.
They remained on this homestead until 1884, when they removed to Hebron, Porter County, Indiana, where they have since resided, and have a secure place in popular confidence and venerating esteem. Soon after establishing residence in Hebron, Mr. Fisher engaged in the hardware business and later he turned his attention to the dry-goods business, in which he continued active operations until 1894, when he disposed of the stock and business, after having been one of the leading merchants of the town for a full decade. Later he here established the private banking institution which was later transformed into the present Citizens State Bank, of which he is president and of which his daughter Ida is cashier, the institution being one whose success is based alike on careful and conservative management and ample capitalistic reinforcement. Miss Fisher became cashier of the original private bank and has continued her effective services under the present regime, with the result that she is known as an especially able and discriminating businesswoman and as the effective coadjutor of her honored father, who has attained the patriarchal age of eighty-seven years (1912) and whose life has been one to offer both lesson and inspiration.
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