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Family Stories
Remembering Time
I believe it first belonged to my great-great grandparents Herman and
Elizabeth Fisher. They were owners of a general store in Pennsylvania. They
might have originally purchased it along with other merchandise to stock their
store. The Fishers moved out west in 1887. Washington wasn’t even a state yet.
For a time, they managed a general store in what is now downtown Port
Angeles Washington.
Their son, my great-grandfather, Elmer Ellsworth Fisher inherited the clock
next. He was a pharmacist and in 1909 through 1912 he served in the
Washington State House of Representatives on behalf of Clallam County. He
and many other members of the Fisher family homesteaded property in and
around Port Angeles including some on what is now Lake Sutherland.
Elmer’s daughter, my grandmother, Athelene Fisher and her husband, Paul
Thomas Poulsen got the clock next. They had a cabin on Lake Sutherland and
it was there that the clock “lived” for many years.
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