WYLIE B. FISHER, a druggist and pharmacist and leading business man of Terral, Jefferson county, is a native of Dallas, Texas. where he was born on the 4th of August, 1877. He obtained a thorough education in the public schools of that city, and after leaving school became a cash boy with Sanger Brothers. Following this employment he was associated with his father in the livery business for some three years, and then began reading medicine with Dr. J. M. lnge, of Denton, Texas, his studies being mainly directed to the mastery of pharmacy. Becoming well gr0unded in the theoretical knowledge of that subject, he came to Davis, Oklahoma, and engaged in the drug business with J. W. Mashburn, where he became thoroughly trained in the practical part of the specialty. There he was elected a member of the Indian Territory Pharmaceutical Association, and in 1901 founded his drug business in Terral. Since that time he has become a representative business man and an active citizen of the place. In 1906 he erected a two-story brick structure for the accommodation of his prospering enterprise, and served as a member of the building committee of the Odd Fellows lodge when the han of that fraternity was erected. He is one of the brisk, mettlesome young men of the locality, who promptly do things the kind most valued as citizens by the young, growing communities of the southwest. Mr. Fisher has passed an the chairs in the subordinate lodge of Odd Fellows, and has served as a delegate to the State Grand Lodge. He is an outspoken Democrat, and takes that active and intelligent interest in politics which demonstrates his conscientious regard for American citizenship.
    Wylie B. Fisher is a, son of William H. and Emma (McGuire) Fisher, his father coming from Whitehall, Illinois, to Dallas, Texas, as a pioneer of 1848, and being engaged as a livery man for many years. Father and grandfather migrated together from Illinois, the elder man being a substantial German farmer,Anthony by name, who married Mary E. Taylor, both dying in Dallas, the husband in 1861. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Fisher were as follows: Alfred, of Munday, Texas; Joseph, living at Stamford, that state; Pleasant, of Florence, Colorado; William H., of Ada, Oklahoma; Nannie, now Mrs. Charles Alexander, of Cleburne, Texas; Virgie (deceased), who married A. B. Rawlins; Dennie, wife of George Riggs, of Tishomingo, Oklahoma, and Lizzie, who married William Conway and died leaving a family. William H. Fisher; the father, was a native of Illinois, passed his early life on his father's farm, and, coming with his parents to Dallas, Texas, enlisted in the Confederate army as a youth, at the close of the Civil war. He commenced business life as a clerk in that city, and, after some years of this service engaged in contract work on the construction of railroad beds and other heavy work of a similar character. For several years he was afterward engaged in the livery business, but returning to the business of contracting, eventually became interested in the O'Neill Construction Company of Dallas, and is still so identified. He married in Dallas county, Texas, Emma McGuire, whose father was a resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and the children of their union were as follows: Chester, of Ada, Oklahoma: Wylie B., of this sketch; Margaret, wife of L. J. Crowder, of Ada, Birdie, wife of J. C. Lester, of Davis, Oklahoma, and A., still living at home. Wylie B. Fisher married, April 23, 1898, Ola, daughter of J. M. Alsabrook, of Bowie,Texas, but originally from Alabama, where Mrs. Fisher was born in 1875. Before marriage, her mother was Laura Stallings. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Fisherare: Madge, Louise and Valree.