Fisher, Harlan Morton

BIOGRAPHY: He owned and lived on the farm once owned by William Gooding,one of the pioneers of Bristol. Spent years in collecting data on theFisher and Gooding families.

BIOGRAPHY: was educated in Canandaigua Academy, graduating in 1878, andtaught school for 19 years in connection with farming. He owns 165 acresof land, and is a general farmer. He makes a specialty of breeding bronzeturkeys, Holstein cattle and Berkshire swine. He is a member of theOntario County Agricultural Society, and for four years has lectured atFarmers'' Institutes in New York, under the auspices of the StateAgricultural Society, on various subjects connected with agriculture, andis considered a drainage expert. He is a Republican, and was assessor twoterms.

BIOGRAPHY: One incident is perhaps worthy of mention as illustrating thematerial of the sturdy yeomanry of New England who settled the EmpireState. While young Gooding was chopping down the thick forest to clearfor crops, he heard a twig snap, and glancing over his shoulder saw alarge savage standing back of him with a tomahawk raised to deal thedeadly blow. Without deigning to give the Indian further notice, he kepton chopping, never missing a single stroke. The Indian, admiring hiscoolness in the trying circumstances, quietly slipped the tomahawk in hisbelt, with an "Ugh, white man no scare," disappeared in the dense woods.