Excerpt from In Memoriam: Samuel S. Fisher

In the year 1831, a young man, who had lately graduated from the School of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City, left the East to seek a place of settlement in the then Far West. Journeying through Southern Michigan, he at length fixed upon a region lying in the county of St. Joseph, near where now stands the pretty village of Centerville. Sending for his young wife, she soon joined him, and, in a rough frontier home, the young couple, inexperienced and tenderly reared, began the battle of life together.

The young man was James C. Fisher, son of the Rev. Samuel Fisher, D. D., a prominent clergyman of the Presbyterian denomination, then settled over a church at Paterson, N. J. His mother was Alice Coggswell, belonging to a well-known Connecticut family. Eliza Sparks, his wife, was the daughter of Samuel Sparks, a shipping merchant of Philadelphia, who served with credit in the war of 1812, attaining the rank of major.

Their life in Michigan was destined to be a brief one.

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