Tehama County
Biographies
MATTHIAS DANY
MATTIAS DANY is the fashionable merchant tailor of Red Bluff. He is a native of Austria, born February 18, 1859. His father, Matthias Dany, Sr., was a native of Bohemia, and his mother was an Austrian. Mr. Dany’s parents were farmers and to that life he was reared. He received his education in his native town, learned his trade, and then spent three years and two months as a soldier in the Austrian army. In 1884 Mr. Dany came to New York and worked at his trade in that city for Delnry, a fashionable tailor. He then went to Boston, where he continued work at his trade, getting an insight into the best methods of making fashionable clothing in the most fashionable cities of the United States.
In September, 1885, he came to San Francisco and soon afterward located in Chico, where he worked a year. He came to Red Bluff in 1886 and established himself in business here on Main street. He employs four first-class workers in his tailor shop and does the leading business in the city. He was burned out in the beginning of the present year (1890), but he established himself in another building the same day.
Mr. Dany is a member of the I.O.O.F. He is a go-ahead and enterprising business man and takes an interest in the affairs of the city and State of his adoption.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Betty Wilson
WILLIAM H. FISHER
WILLIAM H. FISHER is one of Red Bluff’s promising young men. He is a native of Ontario, Canada, born June 23, 1864. His parents, John and Frances (Bishop) Fisher, were natives of England, and were the parents of three children, of whom he is the youngest. The family removed to Iowa, where the subject of this sketch was educated, and where the father died. William H. and his mother subsequently engaged in the restaurant business. In 1876 they removed to Minnesota, continuing in the same business there. They sold out in 1884 and came to California, locating in Red Bluff. For two and a half years Mr. Fisher clerked, first for Mr. J.S. Davenport and later for Mr. Rolla Fuller. He then bought out Mr. Davenport and succeeded him in business. He has a fine location and an extensive trade, his business extending out thirty miles from the city.
Mr. Fisher is a member of the I.O.O.F. Politically he is a Republican. His parents were Methodists. He, however, is not a member of any church. He is an intelligent and practical business young man, and enjoys the confidence of his patrons and all who know him.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Transcribed by Betty Wilson