MONROE C. FISHER. With the formation of the new county boundaries of Jefferson by the constitutional convention, the citizens were confronted with the necessity of choosing a set of county officers and organizing a county government. In the Democratic primaries there were two rivals for the office of register of deeds, and the successful one was Monroe C. Fisher. At the first statehood election in the following September he was easily elected over his Republican opponent and the following November 16th became the first incumbent of the office in the new county of Jefferson. Since that time he has performed the duties of his office with fidelity and is one of the esteemed members of the first official family of the county.
    Mr. Fisher has been a resident of Oklahoma since 1895. He was born in Tangipahoe parish, Louisiana, February 26, 1858, and was reared in Natchitoches parish, whence he came to Oklahoma. When he was of school age the opportunities in his home locality for acquiring an education were so meagre that a country lad with rather indigent parents could hardly expect to obtain even a common schoo1 education, and as a result he arrived at his majority with few school advantages. When about twenty-one he began an Independent career as clerk in a store of Tangipahoe; and continued clerking in Robline until he moved to Oklahoma. For the first three years he was in the grocery business at Ryan, as member of the firm of Spring and Fisher. After withdrawing from this enterprise he conducted a ranch for five years, and then returned to Ryan and resumed his original occupation, first as clerk for John R. Ralls and then with O. B. Garrison and Company untit statehood directed his interests into politics.
    Mr. Fisher's father was Joshua C. Fisher, who was born in Tangipahoe parish, Louisiana, in 1829, spent his life as a farmer, and was also sheriff of Washington parish six years, including the period of the Civil war, and died in Tangipahoe parish in 1893. He married Margaret, daughter of Champion P. Bailey, who came from Tennessee and passed his final years as a farmer in Tangipahoe parish, dying at the age of sixty-five. Joshua Fisher's wife still resides in Natchitoches parish, aged sixty-eight. Her children are:Sarah, wife of B.F. Carter, of Natchitoches parish; Monroe C.; John; Minah, wife of J. D. Prothro;Bailey R. and Joseph J. of Natchitoches parish; Mrs. Maggie Raines; and Mrs. Pearl Sibley. John Fisher, the paternal grandfather of Monroe C. Fisher, was a Tenr;esseean, but he spent most of his life in Louisiana, dying in Washington parish about 1882, when eighty-five years of age. His two brothers, James and George, and a sister had left Tennessee with him, but they continued on and settled in east Texas. .
     Monroe C. Fisher married in January, 1883, in Tangipahoe parish, Miss Edith, a daughter of Barney Elliott. She was born in Louisiana and died in Nocona, Texas, in 1899. Her children were: Dwight, of Gilt Edge, Montana; Floyd, of Los Angeles, California; Augustus V., of the same city; Rossie, Birdie and Retha, at home in Ryan. As his second wife Mr. Fisher married Mrs. Martha Maines, daughter of Wesley Wayborn, and widow of A. L. Maines, a former business man of Ryan. Mr. Fisher has been a member of the Masonic order since 1886.