Henry Peele Nolan, by Susanna G. Fisher, 1945

Photocopy of a typescript. Nolan (1840-1893) was the first husband of Maria Fisher (1851-1939], the eldest of the Fisher children. He was also Irish by birth and met the family in Argentina where he had worked in various jobs and became a manager at the Colony. He left Argentina at the same time as the Fishers and eventually came to North Carolina to work for the railroad and lumber company. He joined the Society of Friends meeting a Piney Woods, He and Maria married in 1877. Susanna explained that she recorded his life so that his children could appreciate his adventurous personality and exploits before illness and hard times in North Carolina.