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26 mar 1986 · Son of George Albert Fisher and Pauline (Conklin) Fisher. Brother of Annie (Fisher) Mabry, Augustus Milford Fisher, Josephine (Fisher) Hopkins, Pauline Fisher, Leon T. Fisher, George A. Fisher and Octavius Fisher. Husband of Ida Rebecca (Gould) Goldsworthy — married 1924 (to before 1941) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
27 kwi 2022 · Orpheus Hodge Fisher was born on July 11, 1900, in Oxford, Pennsylvania, the eighth child of Pauline Conklin Fisher of the Dominican Republic and George Albert Fisher of Baltimore, Maryland. Pauline Fisher died soon afler Orpheus's birth and the family moved to Wilmington, Delaware.
When Orpheus Hodge 'King' Fisher was born on 11 July 1900, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George Albert Fisher, was 49 and his mother, Pauline Conkling, was 44. He married Ida Rebecca Gould in 1924, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
3 lut 2023 · In his personal life, Orpheus H. Fisher met Ida Gould Goldsworthy in the 1920s before getting married in 1924. The couple was blessed with a son, James Gould Fisher, in 1925. Orpheus Fisher then married Marian Anderson in 1943.
Orpheus was born to a mixed race couple and because of his light skin tone, he was able to pass himself off as being white. When he married Ida Gould in 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania she was a wealthy white woman. They had one son born of this marriage, James Gould Fisher who was born in 1925. Orpheus and Ida divorced.
He graduated from Wilmington Central High School, and then in the 1920s he began a series of stints of architectural employment in Philadelphia, including Zantzinger, Medary & Borie. According to family history, he also worked for the Stanley Company, designing theaters in Philadelphia.
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.
