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Fisher, Hendrick

congressman.

He was a delegate from New Jersey to the colonial congress which met in New York in 1765.

Fisher, Horatio G

state senator, congressman, was born April 21, 1838, in Huntingdon, Pa. He was a member of councils from 1862 to 1865; county auditor from 1865 to 1868; and burgess from 1874 to 1877. In 1876 he was elected a state senator for the term of four years; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-sixth and fortyseventh congresses as a republican.

Fisher, John

lawyer, jurist, was born in Maryland. He settled in Delaware; and was appointed United States judge for that district in 1812 by President Madison.

Fisher, John

manufacturer, congressman, was born March 13, 1806, in Londonderry, N. H. In 1856 he settled at Batavia, N. Y.; and was subsequently engaged as a state commissioner in erecting the buildings for the New York State Institution for the Blind, in Batavia. In 1868 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress.

Fisher, John Dix

physician, author, was born in 1799. He aided in organizing the Perkins institution for the blind in Boston, Mass. He was the author of a Description of the Distinct, Confluent, and Inoculated Small-pox, Varioloid Disease, Cow-pox, and Chicken-pox. He died March 3, 1850.

Fisher, Joseph W

jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1871 he was appointed United States chief justice of the supreme court for the territory of Wyoming.

Fisher, Joshua

physician, author, was born May 17, 1749, in Dedham, Mass.

He was a zealous student of natural history, and bequeathed twenty thousand dollars to the Hanover university to found a professorship of that science. He was the author of a Discourse on Narcotics.

He died March 21, 1833, in Beverly, Mass.

Fisher, Nathaniel

clergyman, was born July 8, 1742, in Dedham, Mass.

He was prominent in organizing the protestant episcopal church in New England. He died Dec. 20, 1812, in Salém, Mass.

Fisher, Redwood S

merchant, journalist, author, was born in 1782 in Philadelphia, Pa. He published several volumes on political economy and statistical subjects, one of which is The Progress of the United States of America from the Earliest Periods, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical. He also edited a Gazetteer of the United States. He died May 17, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Fisher, Samuel Reed

clergyman, author, was born June 2, 1810, in Norristown, Pa. He was a German reformed clergyman of Chambersburg, Pa.; and the author of Exercises in the Heidelberg Catechism; The Rum Plague, translation from Zschokke; The Family Assistant; and Heidelberg Catechism Simplified. He died June 5, 1881, in Tiffin, Ohio. a

Fisher, Samuel Sparks

soldier, lawyer, author, was born April 11, 1832, in St. Joseph county, Mich. He published six volumes of Reports of Cases Arising under Letters-Patent for Inventions in the Circuit Courts of the United States.

He died Aug. 14, 1874, in Luzerne county, Pa.

Fisher, Samuel Ware

clergyman, college president, author, was born April 5, 1814, in Morristown, N. J. He was a presbyterian clergyman and educator, who was president of Hamilton college in 1858-67. He was the author of Three Great Temptations of Young Men; and Occasional Sermons and Addresses. He died Jan. 18, 1874, near Cincinnati, Ohio.