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Crisis {lS6i.);IJfe and Service nf Dr. X 11'. Tay- lor; and Discourse Commemorative of Jusiah Willard Uibbs (1861), He is also theautlior of: Essays on the Supernatural Origin of Christianity (1865) ; Life of Benjamin SilUman (1866) ; History of the Refor- mation (1873) ; The Beiiinninijs of Christianity (1877); Faith and nationalism (1879); Grounds of Theistic and Christian Belief (1883); Outlines of Universal History (1885) ; The Christian licliciion (1886); History of the Christian Church nad Manual of Christian Evidences (1888); Kolicc and Method of Ilevtlation (1890) ; Colonial History of the United States (1892); Manual of Xatiiral Theoloijy (1893); History of Christian Doctrine (1896); and numer- ous contributions to periodicals.

FISHER, Horatio Gates, representative, was born in Iluntint^dcm, P;i., April 21, 1838. He was graduated from Lafayette college in 1855 ; was a member of the Huntingdon common council, 1862-65 ; county auditor, 1865-68 ; count}' burgess, 1874-77; state senator in 1876, and represented the 18th Pennsylvania district in the 46th and 47th congresses, 1879-83, being the fir.st congress- man ever elected by the Republicans in that dis- trict. In business he was closely identified with the coal industries of Pennsylvania. He died in Punxsutawney, Jefferson coimty, Pa., May 8,1890. FISHER, Irving, political economist, was born in Saugerties, N.Y., Feb. 27, 1867; son of the Rev. George Wliitefield and Ella (Wescott) Fisher, and grandson of John and Almira (King) Fisher and of Jolm and Catharine (Bozarth) Wescott. He was prepared for college at Smith academy, St. Louis, Mo., and was grad- uated at Yale, A.B., 1888, Ph.D., 1891. He studied in Berlin and Paris, 1893-94. He was tutor in mathe- matics at Yale, 1890- 93 ; assistant professor > of mathematics, 1893- ( 95; assistant pro- 1 fessor of political economy, 1895-98, and was elected full professor in 1898. He joined the Connect- icut academy of arts and sciences in 1892; the British economic a.ssociation in 1894; the American mathematical society in 1894: the American economic association in 1895, and was made an editor of the Yale Review in 1896. He was married, June 24, 1893, to Margaret, daughter of the Hon. Rowland Hazard of Rliode Island. He is the author of: Mathematical Invesligations in the Theory of Value and Prices (1892) ; Yale Bibli-

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oijraphies i\mi): Phillips and Fisher's Elements of tieometry (i896); Appreciation and Interest (1896); Brief Introduction to Infinitesimal Calculus (1897); Bihlioijraphy of Mathematical Economics (1897); and contributions on Capital, Bimetallism, Statis- tics, Mathematical Economics and other subjects to Economic Journal, Yale Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Bond Record, and other periodicals

FISHER, Joshua, pliysician, was born in Ded • ham, Mass., May 17, 1748. He was graduated from Harvard in 1766 and became a physician. He served in the Revolutionary war as a surgeon on a privateer and was taken captive. He escaped to France and re entered the service, con- tinuing until the close of the war. He subse- quently practised in Beverlj^, Mass. He was president of the Massachusetts medical society and a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences. In his will lie bequeathed §20,000 to Harvard college to foimd a chair of natural history. Harvard gave him an honorary 51. D. in. 1804. He published Discourse on Narcotics (1806). He died in Beverly, Mass., March 15, 1833.

FISHER, Mary, author, was born in Marshall county. 111., April 12, 1858; daughter of John and Agnes (Ewing) Fisher. Her father was a native of Sheftield, England, and her mother was born near Glasgow, Scotland. Her great-grandfather was a French sea captain. She was graduated in 1876 from the High school, Chillicothe, 111., where she passed her girlhood, but her education was mainly acquired through her own exertions and she became a wide reader in English. French and German. She taught in the high schools at Lewiston, 111., Springfield, Mo., and Ann Arbor, Mich., and in 1899 was teacher of French. German and American literature in tlie Maniuil training high school, Kansas city. Mo. She is the author of Tiventy-five Letters on Enc/lish Authors (1895) ; A Group of French Critics (li*i)~) ; A General Sur- vey of American Lileratiirc (1899).

FISHER, Michael Montgomery, educator, was born near Rockville, Ind.. Oct. 8, 1834; son of Judge James M. and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Fisher, and grandson of Col. John Fisher, who moved from Brown county, Ohio, to Park county, Ind., in 1806. He was graduated from Hanover college, Ind., in 1855 and until 1870 held the chair of Latin at Westminster college, Fulton, Mo. In 1860 he entered the Presbyterian ministry and was pastor at Fulton, Mo. He fovmded Indepen- dence female college in 1870 and Bellewoocl female college in 1872. He was again professor of Latin at Westminster, 1874-77, and in the lat- ter year was called to a similar chair in the Mis- souri state university. In 1887 he became chairman of the faculty (acting president) of the Missouri state university and lecturer on Roman education. He took a trip abroad in 1888 spend-