Orpheus Hodge Fisher (1900 - 1986)

Born 11 Jul 1900 in Pennsylvania, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Ida Rebecca (Gould) Goldsworthy — married 1924 (to before 1941) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Husband of Marian Elina Anderson — married 17 Jul 1943 in Bethel, Connecticut, United States of America

Died 26 Mar 1986 at age 85 in Danbury Fairfield County Connecticut, USA

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Biography

Born in Oxford, PA, to Pauline Conline Fisher and George Albert Fisher, Orpheus Hodge Fisher soon moved with his father to Wilmington, DE. George Albert Fisher taught at Lincoln University and sent Orpheus H. Fisher first to Friends Central School in Philadelphia and then to Wilmington High School. By the 1920s Fisher was already employed in Philadelphia, working for Zantzinger, Borie & Medary. By February 1928 he was in the office of Heacock & Hokanson, but the Great Depression sent Fisher to New York City, by way of Nova Scotia, Canada and Camden, NJ, where by 1930 he was working for the RCA Victor Company.

Finally arriving in New York, Fisher associated with the United Engineers & Construction Company. Other positions followed in New York, but by 1934 he was working with the 1939 New York World's Fair Corporation. During this time he rekindled his relationship with singer Marian Anderson, whom he had actually met in high school. She became his second wife, and there followed several architectural projects, including homes in Danbury, CT, and Philadelphia.

Written by Sandra L. Tatman.

Sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson
• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 23 September 2021), memorial page for Orpheus Hodge “King” Fisher (11 Jul 1900–26 Mar 1986), Find A Grave: Memorial #221017698, citing Wooster Cemetery, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Norma from Wooster Cemetery (contributor 46886491) .
• Geni World Family Tree
• Biography from the American Architects and Buildings database
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M39J-KBW : accessed 11 December 2017), Orphious Fisher in household of A George Fisher, Lower Oxford Township (excl. Oxford borough) Hopewell borough, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 85, sheet 2A, family 26, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,393.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVVK-D56 : accessed 11 December 2017), Orpheus Fisher in household of Pauline Fisher, Wilmington Ward 6, New Castle, Delaware, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 37, sheet 3A, family 46, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 147; FHL microfilm 1,374,160.
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDWY-1VT : accessed 11 December 2017), Orpheus H Fisher in household of George F Fisher, Wilmington Ward 6, New Castle, Delaware, United States; citing ED 62, sheet 3A, line 45, family 55, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 203; FHL microfilm 1,820,202.