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Joseph Fish

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Joseph Fish

Birth
Joliet, Will County, Illinois, USA
Death
10 Dec 1926 (aged 86)
Enterprise, Washington County, Utah, USA
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Enterprise, Washington County, Utah, USA
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Joseph Fish was among the early settlers of Iron County, Utah; Snowflake, Arizona; and the Mormon Colonies in Mexico. He was mostly self-educated, but well educated. He was a storekeeper, newspaper editor,school teacher, attorney, justice of the peace, sawyer, surveyor, territorial legislator, and historian. His writings have long been valuable resources for later historians and genealogists in researching life in the early days of white settlement of the West. Above all, he was a moral man with solid character. [from Blaine Nay]

His writings include History of the Eastern Arizona Stake; History of Enterprise, Utah; a 7 volume work on the Pioneers of the Southwest and the Territory of Arizona. All of these volumes plus his autobiography are available on www.lulu.com.

He married four wives in polygamy: Mary Campbell Steele, Eliza Jane Lewis, Adelaide Margaret Smith and Julia Ann Reidhead and had 20 children.

Children with Mary were: Mary Josephine, Frances Amelia, Catherine Delphina, Joseph Campbell, John Lazelle and Jessie May.

He had no children with Eliza.

Children with Adelaide were: Horace Nathaniel, Silas Leavitt and Joseph Smith.

Children with Julia were: Franklin Richards, Eliza, Roland, Wilford Preston, Florence, Zelma, Hannah, Julia Maria, Adelaide, Jesse Lewis and Delma.
Joseph Fish was among the early settlers of Iron County, Utah; Snowflake, Arizona; and the Mormon Colonies in Mexico. He was mostly self-educated, but well educated. He was a storekeeper, newspaper editor,school teacher, attorney, justice of the peace, sawyer, surveyor, territorial legislator, and historian. His writings have long been valuable resources for later historians and genealogists in researching life in the early days of white settlement of the West. Above all, he was a moral man with solid character. [from Blaine Nay]

His writings include History of the Eastern Arizona Stake; History of Enterprise, Utah; a 7 volume work on the Pioneers of the Southwest and the Territory of Arizona. All of these volumes plus his autobiography are available on www.lulu.com.

He married four wives in polygamy: Mary Campbell Steele, Eliza Jane Lewis, Adelaide Margaret Smith and Julia Ann Reidhead and had 20 children.

Children with Mary were: Mary Josephine, Frances Amelia, Catherine Delphina, Joseph Campbell, John Lazelle and Jessie May.

He had no children with Eliza.

Children with Adelaide were: Horace Nathaniel, Silas Leavitt and Joseph Smith.

Children with Julia were: Franklin Richards, Eliza, Roland, Wilford Preston, Florence, Zelma, Hannah, Julia Maria, Adelaide, Jesse Lewis and Delma.

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