Fisher Family Circus History with Dates
Charles Fisher opens vet office in Danville KY
1-25-1910 photo Charles Fisher, Receiving Detachment, Army Columbus Ohio
Ruby Fisher born (12-14-1911)
Josephine Fisher born (1913) near Bloomington Indiana
WWI - (1914-1918)
Charles Fisher became
known for rescuing street dogs
and training them to perform tricks and selling them to circuses
(at one time he had over 100 dogs)
1920 -
Cole Bros comes to Danville on 2 railroad cars
Charles Fisher helped tiger give birth
He followed circus for 1 week caring for the cub
Fisher's Circus, Fisher Bros Circus?
(1920)
Charles Fisher owner
Charles, Ruth, Arthur, Josephine "Jo", Ruby Fisher
family 1 ring circus
iron jaw, swinging ladder, acrobatics
1 delivery type truck
2 horse drawn farm wagons
dogs rode in cages
Kentucky, Somerset, Mt Vernon
the tent seated around 100 people
Ruth Fisher slack wire
Dr. Fisher's pick out horse and mule
pony drill
dog act, from the streets of Danville
at night they slept in tents
1921 - Charles Fisher
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
The Fisher Family Show (...1924...)
Charles, Ruth, Ruby, Josephine, Arthur, Sarah Fisher -
acrobats (1924)
Charles Fisher spent Christmas with
family in Danville, KY (1-1925)
Fisher Family Show will work in the Rose Kilian Show
The Rose Kilian Circus (1907-1930)(1905-1928?)
(Ruby and Josephine Fisher 1921?
1925,1926...)
(Charles Fisher Advance Agent 1-25)
2 cage wagons
1 elephant
The Fishers joined
Rose Kilian in Florida
toured Georgia and the Carolinas
horse drawn gypsy caravan
Rose Kilian Circus in Florida, Charles Fisher the Advance Agent (1-24-1925)
Rose Kilian Shows in South Georgia on tour all winter (1-31-1925)
Rose teaches Ruby aerial acts (swinging
ladder) and clown helped
Charles and Ruth Fisher do slackwire
Kids do tightwire
Charles Fisher spent Christmas with
family in Danville, KY (1-1925)
Fisher Family Show will work in the Rose Kilian Show
1929 - Billy Stiles - Manager
John Robinson's (1856-1858, 1863-1864, 1866-1911, 1916-1930)
Letter to
Charles Fisher 11-23-1925
to work 1926
Orange Bros and Moon Bros Circus (1926)
Owned by William "Honest Bill"Newton Jr.
and Cly Newton
Wild West Show (motorized)
(lion and 2 elephants)
(1926 Ruby Fisher dove act - side
show - bought and trained)
3 ring show
based in Ada Oklahoma
Charles Fisher - bill poster
Ruth and children - performed
Josephine "Little Jo" rides on head of elephant on street parade
and helps present elephant
the Fishers joined when it passed through Medora Indiana
1926 - (3) Oklahoma (4) Oklahoma
(5) Mo, Illinois (6) Illinois
(7) Illinois, Wisconsin (8) Indiana, Ohio (9) Indiana, Ohio
Closed and went to Peru Indiana (from William H Whitlark's diary)
Nickel Plate Shows (...1927...)
(Harrington's?, Morgan's?)
small mud show
The Mighty Haag Shows
(1894-1938)(1891-1938?)
Ruby Fisher Haag (1928- 1935...)
Harry Haag Sr. (1900-1935...)
Josephine Fisher Silverlake
Ruth,
Ruby, Josephine, Sarah, Arthur Fisher join the show on the same day as Brownie Silverlake (1928)
Fishers coming from Honest Bill's?
1928 - Ruby, Josephine, Sarah, and Arthur
Fisher join show of the Fisher Family
(Brownie Silverlake joins show, of the Silverlake Trio)
(Silverlake Trio - Archie, Brownie, Billy Silverlake)
panoramic photo taken at Attica Indiana (8-9-1928?) including:
Tan and Carrie Arakis - foot balancing ladder
Frenchie Miller - clown
Alice and Tip the elephants
Harry Haag Sr.
Arthur Fisher was a clown (maybe just for a photograph)
Ruby does the double trap with Archie Timberlake
(Silverlake Trio - Brownie,...)
2-9-1929
The Silverlakes
Four Fisher Sisters - Acrobats and Aerialists
(Billboard 2-16-1929, pg62)
Silverlakes aerialists ( 8-5-1933)
9-2-1928 -
Josephine (15 yrs old) marries Brownie Timberlake at
Royal Center Ind.
(they both joined Mighty Haag the
same day)
(married after 2 weeks)
Brownie was a clown and aerialist (family had aerialist act - Flying
Silverlakes?)
Brownie was a cowboy, rope spinning, whip cracking
Josephine learns trick riding
Brownie's father, Archie, was an aerialist and did the double traps with
Ruby Haag
Ruby Fisher (16 yrs old) marries Harry Haag Sr. (Royal Center
Indiana at home) (1928)
Roy Haag and wife at wedding
Stock Market Crash 1929
United Amusement Co.
(...1934...)
"We can furnish anything in show business
from a one man vaudeville to a three ring circus"
Royal Center Indiana
Dr. Fisher and Family
Harry and Ruby Haag
Brownie and Josephine Silverlake
Bud Hawkins Circus (March 1936 - Aug 1936)
Al Sigsbee (general agent)
(Ruby, Josephine, Arthur - Fisher Troupe of Acrobats)
(Harry Haag Jr. - Equestrian Director)
(Ruby Haag - Trained Dogs)
Ruth Fisher
6-19-1936 in Libertyville IL
(31 trucks and house cars)
Mighty Haag Show closed - 1938
(elephants placed in Charles Fisher's name)
Fisher's Performing Elephants
Sarah Mann Fisher dies (12-30-59)
Charles Fisher died (2-23-1965)
Sarah "Tootsie" Fisher lived at:
Valley Grande Manor and
Hoosier Christian Village