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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. In 1835 he graduated from Yale university; studied two years in Princeton theological seminary; and in 1839 graduated from the Union theological seminary of New York City.

He was

a,

pres-

byterian clergyman and educator, who was president of Hamilton college in 1858-67.

was

He

author of Three Great Temptathe

Young Men; and Occasional mons and Addresses. He died Jan. 18,

tions of

Ser1874,

near Cincinnati, Ohio. Fisher,

Sidney

George, lawyer, author, 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa. He practiced law in Philadelphia, Pa.; and wrote largely on the political questions of the civil war. His most noted essays were Kansas and the Constitution; The True Interest of the Border States; The Laws of Race in Reference to Slavery; and the Law of the Territories. At the close of the civil war he also wrote a book entitled, The Trial of the Constitution. He died July 25, 1871, in Philadelphia, Pa.

was born March

2,

Fisher, Spencer Oliver, lumberrnan, merchant, banker, congressman, was born Feb. He was mayor 3, 1843, in Camden, Mich. of West Bay City in 1881-1884; and Presi-

dent West

Bay City Sugar Company.

He

was a delegate

to the democratic national convention in 1884; and in 1885-89 he was representative from Michigan to the fortyninth and fiftieth congresses. In 1894 he was a candidate on democratic ticket for governor of Michigan.

Fisher, -Sydney George, lawyer, author, was born Sept. 11, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was educated in Philadelphia private schools; at St. Paul's school of Concord; in

1879 graduated from the Trinity college of Hartford; and afterward spent two years at the Harvard law school. He became a member of the Philadelphia bar in 1883; and soon after wrote

numerous legal articles which attracted wide attention. His writings were instrumental in bringing about the adoption of civil service reform. He is the author of The Making of Pennsylvania;

Pennsylvania: Colony and Commonwealth; The Evolution of the Constitution; Men,

Women

and Manners in Colonial Times; The True Benjamin Franklin; and The True William Penn. Fisher, Theodore Willis, educator, physician, author, was born May 29, 1837, in M^estboro, Mass. Since 1881 he has been clinical instructor in mental disease at Harvard university. He is the author of Plain Talks About Insanity. Fisher, Thomas, author, poet, was bom Jan. 21, 1801, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the author of Dial of the Seasons; Song of the Sea Shells; and Mathematics Simplified and Made Attractive. He died Feb. 12, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa. Fisher, Walter Kendrick, educator, zoologist, author, was born Feb. 1, 1878, in OssinSince 1902 he has been assistant ing, N. Y. and instructor in zoology at the Leland Stanford university. He is the author of Birds of Laysan; and the Leeward Island. Fisher, William Arms, editor, musician, composer, was born April 27, 1861, in San Francisco, Cal. Since 1897 he has been editor for the Oliver Ditson company of Boston, Mass. He is the author of a volume ot Children's Songs; and numerous anthems. Fisher, William Mark, painter, artist, waB 15, 1841, in Boston, Mass., of English and Irish parents. He was educated in the public schools; and studied art at the Lowell institute of

born Dec.

Massachusetts. He has painted portraits and figures ; studied in Paris;

many

and for many years main-

tained a stulio in Boston, Mass. He went to

England, wher« he married and settled;

and now resides at Hatfield, Harlow, Essex. He has become well known as a landscape and animal painter; and in 1904 received a gold medal at the St. Louis exposition. 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, financier, author, was born Oct. 18, 1836, in Steuben county, N.Y. He served through the civil war; and received the rank of adjutant-general. He erected and owned the first cotton seed oil mill in Missippippi; and in 1868 was delegate-at-large republican convention. He platted forty additions to Denver, Colo. and was president American trust company of that city. He was the founder of the TransMississippi Congress; and has written extensively on economic subjects. Fisk, Charles J., lawyer, jurist, was born March 11, 1862, in Whiteside county. 111. He