Joshua Francis Fisher

Joshua Francis Fisher
Born	17 February 1807
Died	21 January 1873  (aged 65)
Alma mater	Harvard University
Children	Sophia Georgiana Coxe
Parent(s)	Joshua Fisher

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. 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

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Fisher, Joshua Francis" . 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.