Joshua Francis Fisher
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Joshua Francis Fisher | |
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Born | 17 February 1807 ![]() |
Died | 21 January 1873 ![]() |
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Children | Sophia Georgiana Coxe ![]() |
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Joshua Francis Fisher (February 17, 1807 - January 21, 1873) was an American writer and philanthropist.
Biography
Fisher was born in Philadelphia. He graduated in 1825 from Harvard College, and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1829, but did not practice. He became an incorporator of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind and studied questions of American, in particular of Pennsylvanian, history. He married Elizabeth Powell Francis, who died during the birth of their only child, Joshua Francis Fisher, who was brought up by relatives. In 1833, Fisher was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.[1] During the American Civil War, he sympathized with the Confederacy.
Works
- The Private Life and Domestic Habits of William Penn (1836)
- The Degradation of Our Representative System and Its Reform (1863)
- Reform in Our Municipal Elections (a pamphlet, 1866)
References
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- William Bristol Shaw (1931). "Fisher, Joshua Francis". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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