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Fisher, Spencer O – Fisk, Wilbur

Fisher, Spencer O

merchant, banker, congressman, was born Feb. 3, 1843, in Camden, Mich. He was mayor of West Bay City from 1881 to 1884. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention in 1884; and in the same year was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress.

Fisher, Sidney George

lawyer, author, was born Sept. 11, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of The Making of Pennsylvania; The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States; The Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times; and other works.

Fisher, Theodore Welles

educator, physician, author, was born May 29, 1837, in Westboro, Mass. He is a physician, and since 1881 has been clinical instructor in mental disease at Harvard university. He is the author of Plain Talks About Insanity.

Fisher, Thomas

author, poet, was born Jan. 21, 1801, in Philadelphia, Pa.

He was a Philadelphia writer who published Dial of the Seasons; Song of the Sea Shells; and Mathematics Simplified and Made Attractive. He died Feb. 12, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Fisher, William Mark

painter, was born Dec. 15, 1841, in Boston, Mass.

He has painted landscapes from studies in the neighborhood of Paris, also genre paintings and cattle-pieces, including Noon; On the Cam; and The Meadows.

Fisk, Archie Campbell

soldier, capitalist, was born Oct. 18, 1836, in Steuben county, N. Y. He served through the civil war, and received the rank of adjutant-general. He is president of the Denver Land and Improvement Co.; the Fisk Real Estate and Improvement company; and the Denver Circle Real Estate company in Denver, Colo.

Fisk, Charles J

lawyer, jurist, was born March 11, 1862, in Whiteside county, Ill. This rising lawyer has served as judge of the district court of the first judicial district of North Dakota.

Fisk, Ezra

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 10, 1785, in Shelburne, Mass.

He became in 1813 pastor of the presbyterian church in Goshen, N. Y., where he remained twenty years. He published an oration, delivered at Williams college in 1825; a lecture on the Inability of Sinners. He died Dec. 5, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Fisk, George Clement

manufacturer, was born March 4, 1831, in Hinsdale, N. H. He entered the office of T. W. Watson, car builder, as a bookkeeper; this firm was reorganized in 1862, and in 1871 he was elected president. He is president of two other companies, and proprietor of the Brightwood paper mills in New Hampshire.

Fisk, Pliny

missionary. was born June 24, 1792, in Shelburne, Mass. After traveling extensively in Greece, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, he joined, in 1825, the mission already established at Beirût, and died there of fever in the following October. He died Oct. 23, 1842, in Syria.

Fisk, Samuel

soldier, clergyman, author, was born July 23, 1828, in Shelburne, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman who served as a soldier in the federal army, and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness. He is the author of Mr. Dunn Browne's Experiences in the Army. He died May 22, 1864, in Fredericksburg, Va.

Fisk, Wilbur

clergyman, college president, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 31, 1792, in Brattleboro, Vt. He was a methodist clergyman once famous as a pulpit orator, and the first president of Wesleyan university in 1831-39. He was the author of Calvinistic Controversy; Travels in Europe; and Sermons on Universalism. He died Feb. 22, 1839, in Middletown, Conn.