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ing considerable time in Athens and Rome. While in Rome he delivered a series of lectures before the Archaeological society on Roman and Grecian antiquities, and was correspondent of the Royal archa?ological society in London. He received the degree of D.D. from Hanover col- lege in 1880 and that of LL.D. from same college in 1889. He published the Three PronnncAations of Latin (1878; 3d ed., 1881); Education (1886); and a series of Latin text-books (1887). He died in Columbia, Mo., Feb. 30, 1891.

FISHER, Oscar Louis, educator, was born in Stephenson county. 111., Aug. 12, 1844; son of George W. and Barbara A. (Williams) Fisher; grandson of John and Mary Fisher, and of Benja- min and Elizabeth Williams, and a descendant of Dutch, Sootcli, Welsh and Irish ancestors. He took an academic course at Rock River seminary at Mt. Morris, 111., and was graduated from the Garrett Biblical school of Northwestern univer- sit}', Illinois, in 1871. He entered the Upper Iowa conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1871 and was pastor, presiding elder and superin- tendent of church extension in Iowa, 1871-73, and in Denver, Col., 1873-90. He was elected president of Fort Worth university, Texas, in 1891.

FISHER, Robert Joseph, inventor, was born in Athens, Tenn., Jan. 23, 1857; son of Richard M. and Ann M. (Gettys) Fisher; grandson of ■James and Hannah (Dixon) Gettj-s, and great- grandson of the founder of Gettysburg, Pa. He "was educated at the East Tennessee Wesleyan imiversitj- at Athens, and entered business life as a dry goods clerk, followed by service as assistant cashier in the Cleveland national bank. He or- ganized the First national bank of Athens, Tenn., in 1884 and was its cashier, 189G. He invented a ty[)ewritiug machine for wi-iting in bound books, beginning his experiments in 1892 and completed the invention in 1898. He then organized and became president of the Fisher typewriter com- pany, and erected an extensive plant at Athens, Tenn., to manufacture the machine. He was married June 9, 1892, to Alice M. Gauche of New Orleans, La.

FISHER, Samuel Reed, clergyman, was born in Norristown, Pa., Jime 2, 1810. He attended the German Reformed seminary at York, Pa., and was graduated from Jefferson college in 1834. In 1836 he was gi-anted a license to preach bj' the synod of the German Reformed church, and the same year was ordained pastor at Emmittsburg, Md. He was editor of the Beformed Church Mes- sen/jer, published at Chambersburg, Pa., 1840-80, and was appointed stated clerk, which position he held until his death. He had the special man- agement of the Reformed Church publications, 1845-81. He was twice married: first, on April

5, 1837, to Ellen C, daughter of Daniel C. May, and secondlj' to Mrs. Naomi Kerns. He received the degree of D.D. from FrankUn and Marshall college in 1853. He published: Exercises on the Heidelberg Catechism (1844); Meidelberf/ Catechism Simplified (1850); a translation from the German, The Bum Plague (1853); and The Family Assistant (1855). He died while attending the general synod at Tiffin, Ohio, June 5, 1881.

FISHER, Samuel Ware, educator, was born at Morristown, N.J., April 5, 1814. He was grad- uated from Yale in 1835, studied at Princeton theological seminary, 1836-37, and was gi-aduated from Union theological seminary in 1839. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in April of that year and was pastor at West Bloom- field, N.J., 1839-43; at Albany, N.Y., 1843-46, and at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1847-58. He was moderator of the general assembly, 1857. In 1858 he suc- ceeded the Rev. Simeon North, LL.D., S.T.D., as president of Hamilton college, and held the ofiice until 1866, when he resigned to return to the l)ulpit. He was ixistor at Utica, N.Y., 1867-71, and was a trustee of Aubiu-n theological seminary, 1860-71. He received the degi-ee of D.D. from Miami university in 1852, and that of LL. D. from the University of the city of New York in 1866. He wrote: Three Great Temptations to Young Men (1852); Sermons and Addresses (1860); and Life of Christ. He died at College Hill, near Cin- cinnati, Ohio. Jan. 18, 1874.

FISHER, Sydney George, author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 11, 1856; son of Sidney George and Elizabeth (IngersoU) Fisher; grand- son of James Logan Fisher and of Charles Jared IngersoU, and a descendant of James Logan. He was gi-aduated from Trinity college. Conn., in 1879; studied at Harvard law scihool, 1881-82; was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1883, and practised in Philadelphia. He received the de- gree of L.H.D. from the Western imiversity of Pennsylvania in 1897. He contributed many magazine articles including the letter to the New York Nation, July 30, 1880, which began the movement which established the various civil service reform societies throughout the country; also notable articles published in the Forum en- titled " Alien Degradation of American Charac- ter " (1893), and " Has Immigration Dried up Our Literature?" (1894). He made a special study of the early colonies and colonists and is the author of: The JLalring of Pennsylvania (1896); Pennsylvania; Colony and Commonicealth (1896); The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States (1897) -.Men, ^yomen and Manners in Colo- nial Times (3 vols., 1897); The True Benjamin Franklin (1898); Tl>e True William Penn (1899) anil in pamphlet form The Causes of the Increase of Divorce (1890).