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 214 FISHER. FISHER. of the Mystic Shrine. He is past com- mander F. P. H. Rogers Post 29, G. A. R., Waltham. He is a member of the Central, and vice-president of the Middlesex clubs, both of Boston. At the recent incorporation of the old town of Waltham under a city charter, Mr. Fisher served as a member of the first board of aldermen, and was elected presi- dent of the board. A re-election in 1886 also resulted in his presiding for a second term. In 1887 he was elected mayor of the city, and his administration was so acceptable to the citizens, that in 1888 he was re-elected without an opposing ticket, and, what is certainly a phenomenal case 111 Massachusetts politics, although a staunch Republican, yet again in 1889 he received the high compliment of a practically unan- imous election, in that there was again no opposing ticket in the field. HENRY N. FISHER. Mr. Fisher has been identified with the growth and prosperity of his adopted place of residence as one of the owners in the American Watch Tool Company. He is president of the New England North- western Investment Company of Boston, and a trustee of the Waltham Savings Bank. He was married, August 17. 1876, in Limerick, Me., to Joanna E., daughter of Orin and Sarah A. (Sedgley) Bradeen. They have no children. FISHER, MILTON M., son of Willis and Caroline (Fairbanks) Fisher, was born in Franklin, Norfolk county, on the 30th of January, 1811. His first American ances- tor was Thomas Fisher, who settled in Cambridge in 1634, removing to Dedham in 1637. His early education was accomplished at» the public schools in his native town, at Day's Academy in Wrentham, and at a temporary classical institute in Medway. While fitting for college, he taught public and private schools in different towns, and entered Amherst in 1832. Ill health pre- vented his graduating, but he received an honorary degree of A. M., and in 1835 be- gan business in a country store in Franklin, later continuing the same business in West- borough and West Upton. In 1840 he re- moved to Medway and was engaged in the manufacture of straw goods till 1863, when he established an insurance agency, extending his business through western Norfolk county and Boston, continuing the same to the present time. In August, 1836, he was married, in Midway, to Eleanor, daughter of the Hon. Luther Metcalf of Medway, who died March 13, 1885. They were the parents of nine children, five of whom died in youth. Of the remaining children, one is Theodore W. Fisher, M. D., superintendent of the lunatic hospital in Boston, and lec- turer at the Harvard medical school. The others are : Mary Eleanor, teacher, Helen Frances (wife of Walter V. Hawkes), Cliftondale, and Frederick Luther, treas- urer of the Medway Savings Bank, and in- surance manager. Among the municipal offices and public trusts held by Mr. Fisher are those of postmaster, notary public, justice of the peace, state commissioner for certain rail- roads, etc. He was elected Republican sen- ator from Norfolk in 1859 and '60, in which position he was brought into prominence in several public contests. In recognition of his public services there, he was elected county commissioner for Norfolk in 1863, and held the position for three successive terms, and was for three years chairman of the board. Many signal improvements were inaugurated during his term of office. Mr. Fisher was early identified with the temperance cause from 1S29, when he signed his first pledge, and has held an ad- vanced position in the movement ever since. He is now a director in the Massa-