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ARTHUR
HOWARD FISH
Arthur H. Fish, who is manager of the Hasting Pharmacy at
Chico, California, has had a wide experience in the pharmaceutical profession,
and is well qualified by education and training to fulfill the responsible
duties of his present position. Mr. Fish
was born at Columbus Junction, Iowa, and is a son of Evan and Sarah Elizabeth
Fish. The father engaged in farming at
Columbus Junction, and became a veteran of the Civil War, in which conflict he
served from 1861 to 1865 in Company F, Twenty-fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry.
Arthur H. Fish was educated in the grade schools and in
the high school of Columbus Junction, then studied pharmacy at Valparaiso
University, at Valparaiso, Indiana, from which institution he received his
professional degree. Mr. Fish has
traveled far and wide in following his chosen calling since that date, and has
practiced pharmacy in the states of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Texas, and
California. He was employed by the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe Railway in various capacities at Galveston, Texas, and
in the same city was inspector for the Western Inspection Bureau in charge of
the Morgan Steamship Lines. He was chief
clerk to the traffic manager of the Island Steel Company at Chicago, Illinois,
was employed by the Indiana Harbor Belt Railway at Chicago, and was also in
charge of the fast freight for the Santa Fe at Galveston, Texas. Mr. Fish came to Chico, California, in the year
1921, and, as stated before, is now the manager of the modern Hasting Pharmacy
in this city.
At Paris, Texas, February 11, 1920, Mr. Fish was married
to Miss Eunice Siler, a daughter of James Granville and Emma (Wallace) Siler,
and they have one child, Howard Siler Fish.
Mr. Fish is a charter member of the Masonic blue lodge No. 686 at East
Chicago, Illinois, and a member of the Scottish Rite bodies at Galveston,
Texas. He and his family attend the
Presbyterian Church at Chico.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 2 Pages 386-387. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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