Eber George Fisher, a most progressive agriculturist keeping in touch with the trend of modern thought and scientific investigation concerning farm methods, is now living in Guilford and is concentrating his interest and attention upon the further development and cultivation of his land. He was born in Bridgewater township, Williams county, Ohio, September 19, 1864, a son of David and Amine (Frisbie) Fisher. The father was also a native of the same locality and there learned the trade of a joiner and carpenter, after which he worked at his trade in Bridgewater Center throughout his remaining days. His wife, also a native of Bridgewater township, Williams county, Ohio, was a school-teacher there in early life and she now makes her home with a daughter in Grand Rapids, Michigan. By her marriage she became the mother of three children: Eber George; Walter, who operates the old Fisher homestead in Bridgewater township in Williams county, Ohio; and Della, the wife of Henry Peet, a resident farmer of Michigan, living near Grand Rapids.

  Eber G. Fisher acquired a public school education in Williams county, Ohio, and through the period of his boyhood and youth assisted in the work of the home farm. After his textbooks were put aside he took charge of the farm, which he continued to cultivate and improve until he reached the age of twenty-five years. It was at this time, in 1888, that he removed from the west and took up his abode in the town of Guilford, New Haven county, which was the birthplace of his maternal grandparents, the Frisbies being of an old New Haven county family. After being employed at farm work for a short period Eber G. Fisher purchased a small tract of land, which he cultivated for a few years and then sold. At that time he invested in his present farm property of more than one hundred acres, becoming its owner in 1895. He has lived thereon for twenty-two years and has converted it into one of the valuable and productive farm properties of the county. It is a part of the old Colonel Fowler farm, situated about midway between the center of Guilford and Branford, on the main road. He has entirely changed the appearance of the place, his labors having wrought a marked transformation through the erection of new buildings, large and substantial barns, two large silos and the introduction of the most modern farm machinery. Everything about his place is conducted along progressive lines and scientific methods of farming make his labors most effectively resultant. He was trained to farm work and practice in the west and he has applied the knowledge there gained to the development of his farm property in New England. As the years have passed he has won a very substantial measure of success, his large crops annually bringing to him a most gratifying income. He also has a fine herd of Holstein cattle and conducts a large dairy.

In 1889 Mr. Fisher was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Goldsmith, of Guilford, Connecticut, in which city she was born, a daughter of James D. and Gertrude (Baldwin) Goldsmith, who are mentioned elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Fisher passed away in 1901. By that marriage there were born four children, but only one is now living, Howard Earle. On the 10th of December, 1902, in Guilford, Mr. Fisher was again married, his second union being with Miss Mabel Jenkins, who was born in England but was brought to Stony Creek, New Haven county, when but a year old by her parents, James and Elizabeth Jenkins, who were natives of England. The father was a stonecutter at the granite quarries of Stony Creek, where he still lives, but the mother has passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Fisher have been born two children: Kenneth Chester, whose birth occurred in August, 1907; and Maude Estelle, who was born in October, 1911.

  In his political views Mr. Fisher is an earnest republican but not an office seeker, although he has served as a member of the school board and is a stanch champion of the cause of public education. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and he also has membership in Menuncatuc Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Guilford, and with the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Stony Creek and the Woodmen of the World. He is also connected with Totoket Grange at North Branford, Connecticut. His interest centers in his agricultural pursuits and he recognizes the fact which George Washington stated more than a century ago that “Agriculture is the most honorable occupation of man.” Living in the era when agricultural development has been most rapid, keeping pace with the changes made in all lines of work, he has kept abreast with the trend of modern advancement and thought concerning the development and improvement of the fields and, applying these methods to the work in hand, has accomplished most gratifying results.