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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 57
July 12, 1855, in Florence ToAvnship. She taught for several years;
later spent three years at Oberlin College; and after some further time
spent in teaching in a small college at Galesville, Wisconsin, attended
the University of Wisconsin, from which she was graduated in 1897.
Since that time she has been professor of English in the Western College
for Women at Oxford, Ohio.
Williston, third child of Job and Anne Elizabeth Fish, Avas born at
Berlin Heights, January 15, 1858. In 1877 he was appointed to a cadetship
in the United States Military Academy at West Point. Avhere he AVIIS
graduated in 1881. As second lieutenant in the artillery he servedjAvith
the army in the East and in the West. He resigned his commission in
1887 and went into business. He was admitted to the bar in 1897.
His home was for many years in Chicago, Avhere he is best knoAvn for
his important connections with the city traction interests. He Avas
assistant to the president and attorney for the South Chicago City Railway
Company from 1892 to 1899, and With the Chicago Union Traction
Company from 1899 to 1908. From 1908 to 1912 he AVIIS assistant to
the president, and in 1912 became vice president and general manager
of the Chicago Railways Company. He became vice president of the
West Penn Traction Company, with offices in Pittsburgh, in 1914,
and so continues. Outside of Chicago and Pittsburgh his name is
most familiarly associated with literary authorship. Had he never
written anything but "A Last Will," which has been published and
republished in many forms and editions, his fame as an author Avould
probably still be recognized as long as the English language is read;
but he has also contributed a large amount of prose and verse to magazines,
and is author of a book called "Short Rations," a collection of
short stories of army life, published in 1900. He Avas married September
22, 1881, to Mary Gertrude, daughter of Dwight Foster and Frances
Norris Cameron of Chicago. They had five children: Cameron (born
July 31, 1884), AVIIO is a graduate /of the law department of Northwestern
University, and a lawyer in Chicago; Alexander Hamilton.
born September 17, 1885, died July 25. 1886; Gertrude Cameron (born
August. 30, 1888). a graduate.of llie University of Chicago; Josephine
(born June 26, 1890), AVIIO is a student in music and a talented violinist;
and Margaret, born January 15. 1892, died May 7, 1892.
Josephine L„ the fourth child of Job and Anne Elizabeth Fish. Avas
born in Berlin Heights. January 15, 1858. She graduated at Oberlin
College Avith high honors, and for several years taught Greek and
Latin in Hie high school at Greenville, Michigan, and later gave private
instruction in the classics. She is IIOAV and has been for some years
connected with the public charities in Cleveland.
Nicholas, fifth child of Job and Anne Elizabeth Fish. Avas born March
1, 1861: died March 23. 1861.
Matilda, sixth child of Job and Anne Elizabeth Fish, AV-as born March
1,1861; died March 29, 1861.
Mary Sophia, seventh child of Job and. Anne Elizabeth Fish, Avas
born April 21,1863, in Berlin Heights. She Avas graduated from Oberlin
College in 1886; taught one year in Kinsman, Ohio; tAvo years in Ilollidaysburg,
Pennsylvania, in a private school, and in 1892 she Avent to the