Jacob Fisher
“J. Fisher” is Jacob Fisher, a German who leased Thompson Harrington’s pottery in Lyons, New York in 1872. He married the daughter of John Burger, Sr., who operated a pottery in Rochester, New York where Fisher had worked since 1863. By 1878, Jacob Fisher took complete ownership of the pottery, turning it into the largest New York pottery by 1896. By 1902, Fisher retired and closed the pottery.