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and iu the same year raised the 4th Arkansas cavalry for the Union army. He was elected to the U.S. senate May 5, 1864, before being mus- tered into the army, but under the reconstruction rules was not allowed to take his seat. In 1865 he was made U.S. treasury agent for Arkansas. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1874, from Sebastian county, and a representative in the state legislature in 1877, 1879 and 1885. In 1892 he was elected governor of Arkansas serving two years. He was married in 1807 to Adelaide, daughter of Joseph Miller of Fort Smith, Ark.

FISHER, Albert Kenrick, zoologist, was born at Sing Sing. N.Y., Marcii 21. 1856; .son of Hiram and Susan E. (Townsend) Fisher. He attended Holbrook military higli school in his native town, an 1 was graduated at the College of physi- cians and surgeons. New York city, in 1879. He became a student of vertebrate zoology, and in 1885, when the bureau of ornithology and mam- malogy was established in the United States de- partment of agriculture at Washington, he was ajjpointed to a position as assistant. In this de- partment he prepared an exhaustive treatise on the food of hawks and owls, based on an exami- nation of over twenty-five hundred stomachs, wliioh proved that tliese birds were the farmers' best friends, by keeping in clieck various animals and insects. He was a member of the biological expedition sent out by the department of agricult- ure to Death Valley and the surrounding coun- try in California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah in 1891, and wrote a report on the birds of the re- gion traversed. He was one of the founders of the American ornithologists" union and was elected a member of the Biological society of Washington, D.C., and of various other natural history societies. He is the author of a pam- phlet entitled: Ilaioks and Owls in Tltcir lichition to A'lr'icnltnre.

FISHER, Charles, representative, was born in Rowan county, N.C.. Oct. 20. 1789. He was educated by private tutors at Poplar Tent and in Raleigh, and was admitted to the bar. but never practisel to any extent. He was a state senator in ldl8; was elected as a Democrat a representa tive in the 15th congress in place of George Mum- ford, deceased, and served from Feb. 11, 1819, to March 3, 1821, when he declined a reelection. He was a member of the North Carolina house of commons, 1821-23, 1826-31. 18.33 and 1886: a mem- ber of the state constitutional convention of 18:35; a representative in the 26th congress. 1839- 41: was a candidate for representative in the 29th congress but was defeated, and declined the Dem- ocratic nomination for governor of North Caro- lina in 1846. He died, while on a tour of the southwest, at Hillsboro, Miss., Mav 7. 1849.

FISHER, Charles, actor, was born in Suffolk, England, in 1816. His first appearance on the stage was at the Princess theatre, London, in 1844. He played in the English provinces for the greater part of the next seven years, and made his debut in the United States at William E. Burton's Chambers Street theatre. New York city, as Fer- ment in " The School of Reform," Aug. 30, 1852. He continued under Burton's man- agement till 1861, when he joined the Wallack stock coni- l)any in New York cit}', remaining with this company for eleven years. In 1872 he became a memlier

of the Augustin Daly C/U,rC^ '^ ^Ci>~ stock company. In

1890 he retired from the American stage be- cause of advanced age, visited London, Eng- land, and there appeared for the last time on any stage as "Adam," in As You Like It. His favorite roles were: "Triplet," in Masks and Faces; "Matthew Leigh," in Boseclale; "Noah Learoj'd," in The Long Strike; " Sir Thomas Clif- ford," in T!te Hunchback; the "Pai'son," in The Sfjuire; " Larocque, " in The Romance of a Poor Younij Man; "Geoffrey Champney," in Onr Boijs; "Graves," in Money; the "Ghost," in Hamlet; " Egeus, " in A Midsummer Niyht's Dream; "Baptista," in The Taming of the Shreto; "Jacques," in As You Like It; and "Sir Peter Teazle," " Joseijh Surface," "Falstaff," "Mer- cutio," and " Claude Mehiotte." He died in New York city. June 10, 1891.

FISHER, Charles Harris, physician, was born iu Killiugly, Conn., June 30, 1822; son of George Clinton and Harriet (Cady) Fisher; grandson of Barzillai Fisher, who served in the war of 1812, and great-grandson of Barzillai Fisher, who was in active service during the Revolutionary war. His medical education was acquired in the office of Prof. Alfred C. Post. M.D., LL.D.. of New York city: in the University of the city of New York: in Harvard medical school, and in Dart- mouth college. He received the degree of M.D. from Dartmouth in 1848. and began jnactice at North Scituate, R.I. In 1878 he removed his office to Providence, but continued to reside in Scituate. He served during the civil war as sur- geon on the board of exemption from draft and as an inspector of recruits. In 1869 he was elected to the state senate and in 1870 was appointed a member of the state board of education. He