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again served in the state senate, 1877-79, was a presidential elector in 1870, and in 1878 became a member of the state board of health. In 18811 he was made state registrar of vital statistics and commissioner of public health. He v.as elected to membership in the American medical associa- tion, the American social science association, the American association for the advancement of science, and the American public health associa- tion. He was married in 1849 to Sophia R., daughter of Russell Smith of Scituate, R.I., and their son, George Russell, graduated at Lapliam institute, 1868 ; Brown university, 1872, and Belle- vue hospital medical college, 1874, and became assistant surgeon-general of Rhode Island. Dr. Fislier died in Buffalo, N.Y., Oct. 21, 1893.

FISHER, Daniel Webster, educator, was born at Arch Spring. Huntingdon county. Pa., Jan. 17, 1838; son of Daniel and Martha (Middles- worth) Fisher; grandson of Michael Fisher, and a descendant of John Fisher, who came from Germany early in the 18th century; also on his mother's side, a de- scendant of a Revolu- tionary soldier, who fought at Trenton and Princeton. He was graduated from Jefferson college in 1857 and from the Allegheny theolog- ical seminary, Pa., in 1860. He was or- dained by the pres- bytery of Huntingdon in April. 1860; was ^^^, ^ pastor at New Or-

^, '^hx/fi^^-^e-^^^ leans. 1860-61; at Wheeling, W. Va., 1861-76, and at Madison, Ind., 1878-79. In 1879 he accepted the presidency of Hanover college, Ind. In 1889 he was appointed by President Harrison a member of the commission to examine the mint of the United States. He was married in 1860 to Amanda D. Kouns. He received the degree of D.D. from Muskingum college in 1874, and that of LL.D. from Wooster university in 1887. He contribute.! to jieriodical literature.

FISHER, Ebenezer, educator, was born in Cliarlotte, Maine, Feb. 6. 181.5. He was educated in liis native state and entered the Universalist ministry, holding various pastoi-ates in New York state and elsewhere. On the establishment of the theological department of St. Lawrence uni- versity, he was elected the president and held the office until his death. He published: 77ie Chrintian Sah-ation : a Discussion with J. H. Wal- (Ini M869). See his Bioiirnphy (1880). He died in Canton, N.Y., Feb. 21, 1879.

FISHER, Frances Christine, (Christian Reid") ; see Tiernaii, Frances Christine Fisher.

FISHER, Qeorge Jackson, piiysician, was born in North Castle, Westchester county, N.Y., Nov. 27, 1835. He was graduated in medicine from the University of the city of New York in 1849, and practised his profession in Meck- lenburg, N.Y., until 1851, when he removed to Sing Sing, where he acted as physician and sur- geon to the state prison, 1853-54, and was U.S. ex- amining surgeon for the pension bureau, 1854-74. In 1874 he was elected president of the New York state medical society and in 1876 was a delegate from the society to the International medical congress at PhiladeliJhia. During the civil war he served several times as a volimteer surgeon for the U.S. sanitary commission, and was for more than twenty years brigade surgeon of the National guard of New York. Among his pub- lished writings are : Biographical Sketches of De- ceased Physicians of Westchester Comity (1801) ; On Animal Substances Employed as 31edicines by the Ancients (1862); Teratoloyy (1875);^ Brief Bistoi-y of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood (1877) ; and Sketches of some of the Old Masters of Anatomy, S II rgiry (ind Medic ill e {WW-S3). He died m Sing Sing. N.Y., Feb. S, 1893.

FISHER, Qeorge Park, theologian, was born in Wrentham, Mass., Aug. 10, 1827; son of Lewis and Nancy (Fisher) Fisher; grandson of Lewis Fisher and of Luther Fisher, and a descendant of Samuel Fisher. He was graduated from Brown university in 1847, studied theology at Yale, 184S- 49, was graduated from the Andover theological seminary in 1851 and spent some time as a student in Germany. He was pastor of the church in Yale college, his title being professor of divinity'. 1854-61, and in 1861 he was elected to the chaii' of ecclesiastical his- tory. He received the degree of D.D. from Brown in 1866, from Harvard and

the University of Edinburgh in 1886, and from Princeton m 1896; that of A.M. from Yale univer sity in 1807, and that of LL.D. from Princeton in 1879. He was a member of the editorial board o): the New Enijlander, 1866-92. and in 1892 became a member of the editorial staff of the Yale Eevievi His published sermons bear the titles : History of the Church of Christ in Yale Colleye (1858); Kri tional Faults (1860) ; Thoughts Proper to the Presen'

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