Fisher Family Genealogy

FISHER, Abel

Male 1814 - 1891  (77 years)


 

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News article announcing Abel Fisher's purchase of the Cottage Grove Hotel in Iola, KS - Iola Register, 20 Aug 1880.

Mr. Abel Fisher, who until recently owned a large farm and run a grist mill at Eastbrook, this county, has purchased the Cottage Grove Hotel at Iola, Allen county, Kansas, and has renovated and furnished it anew from top to bottom. Camp's Emigrants' Guide pronounces it one of the best hotels in the State of Kansas. Mr. Fisher has changed the name of his hotel and calls it the Philadelphia Hotel. ( Ed-Article reprinted from the Lawrence (Pa.) Paragraph per the reference at the end of the article. The hotel under Abel's ownership, was run by Abel and his daughters, and is variously listed in news articles of the day as the Philadelphia House, Pennsylvania House, Pennsylvania Hotel and the Fisher Hotel.)


Owner of originalThe Iola Register, (Iola, KS), 20 Aug 1880, p. 1, col. 4
Date20 Aug 1880
File nameAbelFisher-BuyIolaHotel-Aug-20-1880.jpg
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Linked toThe Iola Register; FISHER Abel (EVENT)