Fish, Stuyvesant – Fisher, Redwood S
Fish, Stuyvesant
railroad president, was born June 24, 1851, in New York city. In 1883 he was made second vicepresident of the Illinois Central, becoming president in 1887. He is also president of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad and other corporations affiliated with the Illinois Central.
Fishback, William Meade
lawyer, legislator, governor, was born Nov. 5, 1831, in Culpeper county, Va. He graduated from the university of Virginia, and soon obtained a good reputation as an able lawyer of Arkansas. He was a member of the Arkansas legislature during two constitutional conventions; was elected United States senator in 1864 by the union legislature, but declined to In 1895 he was elected governor of Arkansas and served with distinction. serve.
Fishburn, William
soldier, state legislator, was born in 1760. He was on the staff of Gen. Anthony Wayne, to whom he was aide-de-camp at the capture of Stony Point, and afterward attained the rank of major-general. He died Nov. 3, 1819, in Walterborough, S. C.
Fisher, Alexander Metcalf
educator, journalist, was born in 1794 in Franklin, Mass. He became professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and astronomy in Yale. He died April 22, 1822.
Fisher, Alvan
artist, was born Aug. 9, 1792, in Needham, Mass. In 1814 he began as a portrait-painter, and soon afterward undertook barn-yard scenes, winter landscapes, and cattle-pieces. One of his best works is a portrait of Spurzheim, painted after death, from recollection, in 1832. He died Feb. 16, 1863, in Dedham, Mass.
Fisher, Carmon
poet. He has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press, and his poems have been incorporated in several standard collections.
Fisher, Charles
state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 20, 1789, in Rowan county, N. C. He commenced public life by going into the state senate in 1818; and in 1819 was elected to congress from North Carolina. In 1821 he was again elected to the state legislature, where he served almost continuously until 1836.
From 1839 to 1841 he was again a representative in congress. He died May 7, 1849, in Hillsborough, Miss.
Fisher, Charles
actor, was born in 1816 in England. In 1872 he joined the company of Augustin Daly, playing Old Dorton and Falstaff as his first parts. He continued with this company until his retirement from the stage in 1890. He died June 11, 1891, in New York city.
Fisher, Charles Harris
physician, was born June 30, 1822, in Killingly, Conn. He served in the state senate in 1869-70 and 1877-79. He prepared the annual reports of the vital statistics of Rhode Island from 1878 to 1885, and those of the state board of health since 1879.
Fisher, Daniel W
clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 17, 1838, in Arch Spring, Pa. He has filled pastorates in the presbyterian churches at Madison, Ind.; Wheeling, W. Va.; New Orleans, La.; and Allegheny City, Pa. Since 1879 he has been president of Hanover college.
Fisher, David
clergyman, congressman, was born Dec. 3, 1794, in Somerset county, Pa. He was elected to the legislature of Ohio; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847. He died May 7, 1886, near Mount Holly, Pa.
Fisher, Ebenezer
clergyman, college president, author, was born Feb. 6, 1815, in Charlotte, Maine. He was a universalist clergyman who was the first president of the theological seminary at Canton, N. Y. He is the author of The Christian Salvation. He died Feb. 21, 1879, in Canton, N. Y.
Fisher, George
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1830; and a member of the New York assembly from Tioga county in 1835.
Fisher, George Judson
physician, author, was born Nov. 27, 1825, in North Castle, N. Y. He was a physician, for many years medical director at Sing Sing prison; and the author of Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Physicians of Westchester County, N. Y.; Animal Substances Employed as Medicines by the Ancients; and Diploteratology.
Fisher, George P
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 13, 1817, in Kent county, Del. In 1843 and 1844 he was elected to the Delaware house of representatives; in 1846 became secretary of state of Delaware; and in 1849 went into the state department at Washington as the confidential clerk of Secretary Clayton. In 1850 he was appointed by President Taylor a commissioner to settle claims against, Brazil, which office expired in 1852. From 1857 to 1860 he held the position of attorney-general of the state of Delaware; and was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-seventh congress. He was subsequently appointed a judge of the supreme court for the District of Columbia, which position he resigned to accept that of district attorney.
Fisher, George Park
educator, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 10, 1827, in Wrentham, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman, and has been professor of ecclesiastical history at Yale university since 1861. He is the author of The Supernatural Origin of Christianity; The Reformation; The Beginnings of Christianity; Faith and Rationalism; Discussions in History and Theology; Life of Benjamin Silliman; The Grounds of Theistic and Rationalistic Belief; History of the Christian Church; The Christian Religion; Manual of Natural Theology; Manual of Christian Evidences; Outlines of Universal History; Nature and Method of Revelation; and The Colonial Era. congressman.
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, Joshua Francis
reformer, author, was born Feb. 17, 1807, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a municipal reformer of Philadelphia; and the author of The Degradation of Our Representative System and Its Reform; 'Reform of Municipal Elections; and Nomination of Candidates. He died Jan. 21, 1873, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Fisher, Michael Montgomery
educator, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 8, 1834, in Rockville, Ind. He is a presbyterian clergyman and educator, and has been professor of Latin at the university of Missouri since 1871. He is the author of The Three Pronunciations of Latin; and Education.
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, Oscar L
clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 12, 1844, in Freeport, Ill. He has for many years been president of the Fort Worth university, Texas.
Fisher, Rebecca Jane Gilli- Land
was born Aug. 31, 1832, in Philadelphia, Pa. She has been president of the following associations: Missionary, Church Aid, W. C. T. U., Literary, and the Ladies' Prohibition club of Austin, Texas, where she now resides, and is a highly honored member of society.
She has also been president of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas for seven years; and a member of the Woman's State Press association, and other organizations. Her parents were killed by the Indians in 1839; herself and little brother were taken prisoners, but rescued in a few hours by the Texas rangers. In 1848 she became the wife of the Rev. O. Fisher, a noted author and clergyman of the methodist church. She has written extensively for current newspapers and magazines, and her writings have been described as prose poems.
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.