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* Source: Portrait & Biographical Record of
City of Toledo and Lucas and Wood Counties, Ohio.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1895
† Source: History of Northwestern
Ohio - Vol. II _ 1917 As
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| WALLACE H. FACER |
| ELIAS FASSETT |
| MILLARD FILLMORE |
| WILLIAM FISH |
ALBERT W. FISHER, M. D. The
medical profession in Toledo is represented by a number of skillful
practitioners, who have an extended knowledge of therapeutics and
hold enviable reputations as physicians of ability. This noble
profession affords to the student a never-ending source of
investigation and experiment. New remedies are being
constantly discovered, steady progress is being made in surgery, and
new diseases are presenting themselves under varying forms of
civilization. Whatever may be said of discoveries in other
fields of knowledge, and certainly they are astonishing, it can be
truthfully said of this science that not one can equal it in the
great strides it is making toward a comprehensive grasp of the whole
subject of man in relation to health and disease, the prevention and
the cure of ills to which the human flesh is heir.
In the noble army of workers in this great field stands
Albert W. Fisher, M. D., of Toledo. A sketch of
the life of one so well known will be of interest to our readers,
and we therefore take pleasure in presenting the following facts
concerning his history. He was born in Sunbury, Northumberland
County, Pa., Nov. 4, 1835, and is the son of Rev. Richard A. and
Amelia C. (Weiser) Fisher. His father, who was for many
years a minister in the German Reformed Church, died in Millersburg,
Dauphin County, Pa., in 1857, and was buried in Sunbury, Pa.
In the parental family there were five sons and five
daughters, of whom the Doctor was the next to the eldest. He
was reared in Sunbury, Pa., and on arriving at man's estate began
the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. J. B. Masser,
of that place. Afterward he carried on his studies in the
Jefferson Medical College, from which institution he was graduated
in March, 1860. The following year he entered the army as
Assistant Surgeon of the Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry,
assigned to the Army of the Potomac. He continued in that
capacity until the fall of 1862, when he was compelled to resign on
account of ill health.
Coming to Toledo in 1862, Dr. Fisher has since
conducted a large and profitable practice in this city. In
1875 he was appointed Health Officer for the city of Toledo, which
position he held for six consecutive years. He also served in
that capacity during 1883-84 and 1891-92. In 1893 he held the
position of Acting Surgeon of the St. Vincent Hospital. In
1879 he received a similar appointment in the Marine Hospital, and
continued as Acting surgeon of that institution until the fall of
1892, when he resigned. In everything pertaining to the
profession he is deeply interested, and holds membership in the
Toledo Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society and the
Northwestern Medical Association. He was one of the organizers
of the Toledo Medical College, and was Dean of the faculty for the
first five years, and Professor of Nervous Diseases and Clinical
Surgery.
Miss Mary E., daughter of Henry Wise, of
Sunbury, Pa., became the wife of Dr. Fisher in 1861, and
seven children have been born of their union, named as follows:
Richard A., Mary M. A., Charles E., William H., Nevin W.,
Frank R. and Amelia L. Socially the doctor is
identified with the Order of Elks, and is also connected with the
Grand Army of the Republic. With the wife he holds membership
in the Westminster Church of Toledo, and is a generous contributor
to its benefactions. |
| WILLIAM C. FLETCHER |
| JACOB FOLGER |
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