Fisher became the owner of a major shrimp processing facility known as "Manila Village," located in Barataria Bay between Grand Isle and Lafitte and west of Port Sulphur, Louisiana.
[3] Once settled, Jules Marks owned and operated a grocery store in the remote fishing community of Lafitte, where the young Fisher boys would grow up.
In October, 1900, Jules Gabriel Fisher married Sadie Wachsman at the Temple of Hebrew Union in Greenville, Mississippi.
U.S. Census records from 1910 and 1920 list Jules G. Fisher as residing at Manila Village, the shrimp processing facility and encampment at Barataria Bay, which he owned and operated.
[2][15] It is unclear if facts regarding his residence would have jeopardized his eligibility to serve in any of his elected political seats, which were for Jefferson Parish and not Orleans.
[8][16] At the time Fisher entered Jefferson Parish government, Louis H. Marrero had been in power for decades, possessing multiple political positions, including Sherriff and Louisiana Senator.
As elections approached for 1920, Jules Fisher boldly predicted the pending defeat and demise of Marrero and his political machine at the polls.
Senator Fisher was one of 15 men to sign the "Round Robin" letter that declared that they would not vote to impeach, no matter the charges.
[2][8] Fisher attributed his strong relationship with Long as being the reason why Jefferson Parish was the recipient of many municipal infrastructure projects completed by the state.
[8][21][22] In 1936, Fisher actively championed state legislation calling for the creation of a ship channel, referred to as the "Jefferson Seaway," that would connect Westwego and Grand Isle, the path of which would cross his shrimp drying business at Manila Village.
[23] Though the ship channel was never built, the Barataria Bay Waterway was dredged for barge traffic in 1960 through a federal project, years after Fisher's death.
[3] This small area is essentially a narrow strip of high ground surrounded by swamps, marshland, bayous and bays, and prior to the discovery of crude oil deposits in the 1930s, seafood and trapping were its foremost industries.
Near this time, the small platform encampment called “Manila Village” was developed by a Filipino man named Jacinto Quintin de la Cruz.