Peter Fischer (1816-1874) was a German immigrant to the United States. He was born in Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Prussia, and he later emigrated to the United States and married Barbara Spiegler (1818-1883). He fathered Anna Maria Fischer (1845-1921) and Heinrich Fischer (1854-1909), and he died in Union Hill, New Jersey (present-day Union City) in 1874.