On June 2, 1906, Velvil Fisch departed from Antwerp, Belgium for New York City where he changed his name to William Fisher and set off for Pittsburgh.

On August 24, 1907, Malka Fisch arrived to Baltimore to join her husband in Pittsburgh, changing her name to Mollie Fisher.

In 1909, William Fisher bought a clothing company in Salem, Ohio.

In the winter of 1925, William Fisher sold his business in Salem and moved the family to Cleveland. Max moved in with his Uncle Ben's family to finish high school in Salem.

After losing his football scholarship to injuries, Max Fisher delivered ice for City Ice and Fuel to pay his expenses during college.

In the Great Depression that succeeded the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, William Fisher lost his business. He moved the family to Detroit and invested in Solaray Sales and Manufacturing Corporation, a friend's lubricating oil company.

After helping his father with the relocation of the Keystone Oil Refining Company plant, William hired Max as a salesman in 1931.

With insurance money from the accident, William Fisher bought out most of his partners and became President of Keystone.

By purchasing its best customer, Speedway 79 gas stations, in 1947, Aurora became fully integrated.

A lifelong congenital heart disease finally killed Max Fisher's wife Sylvia on June 22, 1952, leaving Max and their daughter, Jane.

Max Fisher became Chairman of the Board of Aurora Gasoline Company effective January 1, 1957.

In 1962, The Ohio Oil Company adopted the name of its main brand and became Marathon Oil Company.

Max Fisher is among 14 Detroiters included on United Jewish Appeal Overseas Study Mission to Europe and Israel.

Max Fisher elected President of Detroit's United Foundation (then the nation's largest community chest organization).

Max Fisher was elected the General Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal at the 27th annual conference in New York City. He will retain this position unitl 1967.

In September 1967, Detroit Magazine published a feature profile on Max Fisher.

After serving as General Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal since 1964, Max Fisher was elected President of the UJA.

In February 1969, The Detroit News Magazine published a feature profile on Max Fisher.

Max Fisher attained the highest position in the American Jewish community by being chosen President of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.

Max Fisher along with fifteen other American Jewish leaders meet with President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger and other members of the administration in the White House. The leaders requested that Nixon ask Soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev to eliminate the "exit tax" for educated emigrants.

It is widely acknowledged that Max Fisher’s role had a profound impact on the outcome of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In the early days of the war, Israel suffered unprecedented losses as Egypt moved into the Sinai and Syria captured high ground in the Golan. Israel was in desperate need of U.S. military equipment; it had lost 20% of its fighter bombers, a total of 114 planes. Behind the scenes, Max was in constant communication with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and Israel’s U.S. ambassador, Simcha Dinitz. They knew that Max understood the gravity of the situation and had powerful contacts within the U.S. government. This was a matter of Jewish survival and he offered a direct conduit to the leadership of the United States government. Max went to the Oval Office and presented a letter to President Nixon from the Presidents of the Jewish Conference, representing leaders from a number of major Jewish organizations. ”Please send the Israeli’s what they need," Fisher told Nixon. "You can’t let them be destroyed.” When Fisher left the Oval Office, he went with the certainty that Nixon would resupply the Israelis. This critical intervention became a major turning point in the war.

In 1975, Max Fisher, with Henry Ford II and others, backed Al Taubman's successful bid for the rights to the 73,000-acre Irvine Ranch in southern California, at the time the largest private real-estate holding in the country.

Max Fisher agrees to be the Finance Chairman of his good friend, Gerald Ford's presidential re-election committee.

In January 1976, The Detroit Free Press featured an extensive interview with Max Fisher.

Max Fisher played a major role in the Ford campaign which won an estimated 45% of the Jewish vote. Fisher described Ford's defeat as "…the most disappointing moment in my life."

In 1978, The Wall Street Journal ran a feature article about Max Fisher titled "Quiet Operator."

In 1980, Monthly Detroit magazine published a 12-page cover story about Max Fisher titled "Power Broker."

Max Fisher gave the closing address, "To Build A Better Jewish Agency," at the 9th Annual Assembly of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem on July 3, 1980.

The 1981 Morris J. Kaplun Prize was awarded to Max Fisher by Dropsie University.

In 1981, The New York Times published an Op-Ed by Max Fisher titled "Detroit - A Tale of Two Cities."

U.S. Steel purchased Marathon Oil in 1982 for $125 per share.

In 1983, the Detroit Jewish News published an extended interview with Max Fisher as an excerpt from a book on North America's most successful Jewish businessmen.

After 13 years of service, Max Fisher retired as chairman for the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors at the JA Assembly in Jerusalem in 1983.

International private enterprise by prominent Jewish businessmen to develop the Israeli economy, "Operation Independence," was announced by chairman Max Fisher in 1985.

The 11th annual "Fisher Meeting" fundraiser nets $10.3 million in 1986.

At the 1988 GOP National Convention in New Orleans, Max Fisher, chairman of the National Jewish Republican Coalition, gave an opening session address.

President Reagan spoke at a GOP fundraiser and private dinner celebration in honor of Max Fisher's 80th birthday in Detroit in 1988.

$11.2 million pledged for the 1990 Allied Jewish Campaign at the 14th annual "Fisher Meeting."

In 1992, Max Fisher donated $1 million to the new United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

The United Way of America's Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award in 1994.

The Max M. Fisher Foundation gave a $25,000 grant to the Detroit Jewish Community Center to sponsor intergenerational programs in 1994.

The Republican Party honored Max Fisher with their first-ever American Spirit Award at a private dinner in Washington in 1997.

Max Fisher made a $1.5 million endowment to establish the Fisher-Bernstein Institute for Leadership Development in Jewish Philanthropy at Brandeis University in 1997.

At 94, Max Fisher was the oldest person on Forbes Magazine's listing of the 400 richest Americans in 2002.

On October 2, 2003, the Detroit Free Press devoted much of its front page to a tribute titled "The Amazing Life of Max Fisher" in light of the opening of the Max M. Fisher Music Center.