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pointed a judge of the supreme court for the District of Columbia, which position he resigned to accept that of district attorney. He died Feb. 11, 1899, in Washington, D.C. Fisher, George Park, educator, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 10, 1837, in Wrentham, Mass. He 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 Belief;

and Rationalistic

of Theistic

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. Fisher, Harrison, illustrator, author, born July 27, 1875, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

was

He

has illustrated Three Men on Wheels, by Jerome K. Jerome; and other books. He is

now

The

illustrating

Saturday

Evening

Post; and other magazines. He is the author of The Harrison Fisher Book, a collection of drawings. Fisher, Hendrick, congressman. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the colonial congress which met in New York in 1765. died in New Jersey. Fisher, Horace Newton,

He

soldier, author, Oct. 19, 1836, in Boston, Mass. Since 1876 he has been consul of Chili in

was born Bo.ston.

Fisher, Horatio 6., state senator, congressman, was born April 21, 1838, in Huntington, Pa. He was a member of councils in 3 862-65; county auditor in 1865-68; and burgess in 1874-77. In 1876 he was elected a state senator for the term of four years; and in 1879-83 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-sixth and fortyseventh congresses as a. republican.

Fisher, Irving, educator, political economist, author, was born on Feb. 27, 1867, in Saugerties, N.Y. In 1881 he graduated with

the

degree of

Ph.D.

from Yale university; and in 1891-94 studied in Berlin and Paris. In 1891-93 he was tutor of mathe-

matics,

in

1893-95

was

professor, and in 1895-98 was assistant professor of political economy in Yale university. Since 1898 he

has been professor of political

Yale university.

He

is

a

economy

member

at of the

American association for the advancement of science; was a member of the national conservation commission; and was president of the committee of one hundred on national health

to

advocate the establish-

ment

of the national department of health. the author of Elements of Geometry; Bibliography of Mathematical Economics; Mathematical Investigations in Theory of Value and Prices; Appreciation and Interest; Introduction in Calculus; The Nature of Capital and Income; and other works. Fisher, Israel F., lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 17, 1858, in New York City. In 1879 he began the practice of law in

He

is

In 1888^90 he was a member of the executive state committee of the republican state committee. In 1895-99 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses.

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Fisher, John, lawyer, jurist, was bom in Maryland. He settled in Delaware; and was appointed United States district judge for that district in 1812 by President Madison. He died in Delaware. 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 1869-71 he was a representative from New York to the congress. He died in New York.

forty-first

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, in Boston, Mass. Fisher, Joseph W., soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1814 in Pennsylvania. He attained the rank of brigadier-general during the civil war. In 1871 he was appointed United States chief justice of the supreme

court for the territory of Wyoming. He died Oct. 18, 1900, in Cheyenne, Wyo. Fisher, Joshua, physician, philanthropist, author, was born May 17, 1748, 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 one of the incorporators of the Pennsylvania institution for the instruction of the blind, the second of its kind in America; arid was president for one year. He was 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, Lewis Seals, educator, theologian, clergyman, college president, author, was bom April 30, 1859, in Charlotte, Maine. He has filled pastorates in Rochester, N.Y. and